Louis Antonopoulos
Development Team Lead at thoughtbot
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Antonopoulos is a development team lead with 10+ years of experience coaching cross-functional teams and shipping mobile and web products for clients ranging from startups to enterprise. He blends hands-on iOS and Rails development with people-first leadership, mentoring designers and engineers while aligning team goals to business strategy. At thoughtbot he manages mixed front-end, back-end, and mobile teams and represents the studio in the developer community, and previously led international mobile product and GDPR efforts at Ticketmaster. His background includes architecting secure ERP and CRM applications, automating build pipelines, and quickly prototyping production-ready iOS apps and WordPress sites. Known for pairing curiosity with operational rigor, he often surfaces technical wins by investigating system behavior (for example, performance-testing APIs to uncover hidden issues). He holds a BA in English Literature and Computer Science and focuses on creating energetic, fulfilling teams that deliver excellent user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Myers Engineering Scholar, English Literature and Computer Science, BA, Myers Engineering Scholar, English Literature and Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisValedictorian, Valedictorian at Parkway West
English, Greek, French
Github Skills (53)
test-kitchen10
coercion10
test-data10
factories10
rubygems10
testing10
css10
authentication10
rails10
capybara10
text-message10
ruby10
dry-rb10
actionmailer10
heroku10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/louis-a-blog-samples
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
This is the code used in the blog post, "Making Your Version Number Super-Visible".
Contributions:11 commits, 20 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 months
version-numberblog-postvisible
louis-antonopoulos/heya
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Heya 👋 is a campaign mailer for Rails. Think of it like ActionMailer, but for timed email sequences. It can also perform other actions like sending a text message.
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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