Louis Otto
Lead Developer at Misc
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLouis Otto is a Lead Developer and engineering manager with 11 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and modernising legacy stacks into React/Next.js ecosystems. He combines hands-on full‑stack JavaScript expertise (React, Next.js, Node, GraphQL, Prisma) with proven delivery skills—CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, unit and e2e testing—to ship scalable, SEO‑friendly products. As a former Head of Engineering he has driven organisation-wide change: migrating Perl to React, introducing Agile/Scrum, creating public APIs and internal microservices, and improving hiring and OKR processes. He excels at coaching and growing teams while balancing stakeholder management, budgeting, and technical discovery. Based in Guildford, UK, he also consults freelance on architecture, OKR-setting and team transformation, bringing a pragmatic focus on measurable efficiency gains. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record of turning operational constraints (security, hosting costs, legacy tech) into opportunities for strategic platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Sciences at Woking College
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Github Skills (21)
sublime-text7
meta7
basic-authentication6
php6
facebook-open-graph6
jquery6
react-component6
authentication6
apache6
react5
datepicker5
metadata5
range-slider5
sublime5
datetime4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
louisotto/groovy-react
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
A HTML meta data helper built in React. Quickly add page and social metadata to any webpage.
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
reactmetameta-datametadatahtml-meta
louisotto/groovymeta
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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