Louis Chenais
Frontend Developer at Design Tokens Community Group
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Chenais is a Frontend Developer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building responsive, user-focused interfaces and design system tooling from Paris. He co-founded Specify, a design API that scaled to 40+ customers and raised €4M, where he led frontend architecture, built the web app, marketing sites and a Sketch plugin, then transitioned to customer-facing roles in sales, support and community. Louis is active in the Design Tokens Community Group as a format specification editor, blending hands-on engineering with design-system advocacy and practical token expertise. Pragmatic and product-minded, he leverages reusable components to prioritize business logic and UX, and often helps teams implement and scale their design workflows. An interesting detail: beyond coding he’s been a frequent speaker and writer on design systems, translating technical work into tangible adoption and customer success.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
HETIC
French, English
Github Skills (170)
testing10
specification10
style-dictionary10
javascript10
jss10
svgr10
wcag10
angular10
design-tokens10
theme-ui10
axe10
tailwindcss10
vue10
font-awesome10
unify10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChucKN0risK/Photographers-References
May 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
Specifyapp/github-action-specify-style-dictionary
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Useful use cases to generate and transform design tokens using GitHub Actions
Contributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 6 days
casesuse-casestokenstransformdesign-system
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