Lou Bichard
Field CTO at Ona
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLou Bichard is a Field CTO and product-minded engineering leader with 11 years’ experience helping regulated enterprises restore developer flow through standardized, sandboxed dev environments. At Ona they moved from Product Manager to Field CTO, scaling automated developer workspaces used by millions and running mission control for projects across cloud and VPC deployments. Previously a Principal Engineer at DAZN, Lou built platform foundations that supported 500 engineers and ~15M global users, blending platform engineering rigor with developer experience. Based in London, they specialize in transforming traditional ops into high-impact platform teams and bring a pragmatic, product-first perspective uncommon in infrastructure roles.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Management & Computing, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Management & Computing at Loughborough University
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Github Skills (178)
infrastructure10
dx10
disposable10
theia10
microservices10
jetbrains10
provisioning10
editor10
code-review10
dynamodb10
lambda10
dev-environment10
terraform-cli10
sveltekit10
netlify10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
loujaybee/guitar-lessons
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
loujaybee/loujaybee
Feb 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:39 pushes, 34 branches in 5 years 8 months
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