Louis Alridge
Adops Fullstack Engineer at Simpli.fi
Plainfield, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLouis Alridge is an Adops Fullstack Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building web applications, APIs, and production infrastructure across Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and modern JavaScript frameworks. He blends backend systems work—Elixir/Rails APIs, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis—with frontend expertise in React, Vue, and legacy Angular, and a strong DevOps background using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef and observability tooling. Louis has repeatedly owned full features end-to-end, rebuilt and migrated stacks (including converting thelocus.co between Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, and static sites) and earned peer recognition for impactful contributions at Simpli.fi. He practices TDD/BDD, builds developer tools (open-sourced CLI work like Cheftacular), and mentors through code reviews and interview assessments. Curious about LLMs, he’s explored Llama 3 and local model tuning to assess on-premise alternatives to cloud LLMs. Based in Plainfield, IL, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong stakeholder communication to deliver reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Programming, Computer Science, Programming at Texas Tech University
Japanese, French
Github Skills (23)
handlers9
mutators9
sensu8
devops7
infrastructure7
chef-infra7
automation6
administrate6
cookbook5
rails4
rails-api4
rspec4
ruby4
cli4
integration-testing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SocialCentivPublic/cheftacular
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:106 commits, 67 PRs, 93 pushes in 10 months
ruby-gemrailsinfrastructurerubystacks
loualrid/application_ruby
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
railscookbookrubyruby-application
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