Lou Reade is a full stack developer with eight years of experience who blends technical craft with a formal fine art background, currently working in People Operations at Snyk.io (not in recruitment). Based in London, Lou is a makers graduate ('21) and builds across the stack while maintaining an active creative practice in painting, illustration, and book illustration. They welcome commissions and have trained at Chelsea and Cardiff School of Art & Design, bringing visual design sensibilities to UI and product work. Lou’s cross-disciplinary profile helps translate user needs into polished interfaces and thoughtful user experiences. Colleagues describe them as a creative technologist who pairs pragmatic engineering with an illustrator’s attention to detail.
8 years of coding experience
Foundation Diploma, Art & Design (Major: Painting), Foundation Diploma, Art & Design (Major: Painting) at Weston College
BA (hons), Fine Art, BA (hons), Fine Art at UWIC Cardiff School of Art & Design
short course, Book illustration, short course, Book illustration at University of the Arts London: Chelsea
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