Summary
Andrew Louis is a freelance software developer based in Old Toronto with 13 years of experience building web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails and WordPress. He combines startup grit—co-founding and serving as CTO of ShopLocket, which raised a $1M seed and was acquired—with ongoing freelance work for clients like The Globe and Mail and Top Hat. Comfortable across the stack, he has deep product instincts from running online operations, advising conferences, and selecting speakers, and he enjoys distributed systems problems as a personal interest. Known for pragmatic, ship-focused engineering, he also brings board-level and mentorship experience from roles as director and conference co-chair.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Toronto