# Lou (@lou.gg)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/lou.gg
Headline: University Student, Software Engineer, UI/UX Designer
Website: https://lou.gg

## About

Hello there! I'm Louis (or Lou), a software engineer, open source enthusiast, UI/UX designer, and hobbyist singer & blogger from Germany! I'm currently going to coop state uni and work on several projects in various languages at the same time. 

## Experience

- **Student at Internetagentur websedit** (2024 – 2026)
  Studying at a cooperative state university to get a Bachelor of Science.
- **Software Engineer at Entropic Software** (2023 – present)
  Entropic Software is my own software development company, focusing on websites and web applications. In my free time, I work on projects for all kinds of clients, from individuals to small businesses, handling everything from project management and planning to development.
- **Maintainer at StudioCMS** (2024 – 2025)
  Working on an open-source Astro-native CMS with members of the Astro community.
- **Core Maintainer at StudioCMS** (2025 – present)
  Working on an open-source Astro-native CMS with members of the Astro community, with a special focus on (UI/UX) design across the ecosystem and grapic design.
- **Software Engineer at VALTracker.gg** (2021 – 2023)
  Working as lead developer on VALTracker.gg, a project I created to track your Valorant stats. Reached 12.000+ downloads during those two years.
- **Maintainer at Astro** (2025 – present)
  Helping out the Astro community in public support channels and helping maintain Astro, a meta-framework for content-driven websites.
- **Software Engineer at Seibert Products GmbH** (2026 – present)
  Focused on building and evolving internal developer tooling around a component library powered by Astro. Worked on effectively combining design systems and AI, making the same UI kit usable by both human developers and AI agents, refining the workflows and architecture that keep it maintainable. Contributed upstream to Astro when the needed, helped manage the AI infrastructure.

## Education

- **Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg** — Bachelor of Science - BS (2024 – 2027)
- **Studienkolleg St. Johann Blönried** — Abitur (2016 – 2024)

## Skills

- Management
- UI Design
- UX-Design
- Web Design
- TypeScript
- Open Source Software
- Web Development
- Communication
- Project Management
- Software Engineering
- Astro
- Artificial Intelligence
- AT Protocol

## Publications

- Would you still love me if I was a White Hat Tool? — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/would-you-still-love-me-if-i-was-a-white-hat-tool)
- Why Writing Blogs isn't hard — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/why-writing-blogs-isnt-hard)
- A Successor to E-Mail — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/a-successor-to-e-mail)
- Understanding CSS Easing Functions — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/understanding-css-easing-functions)
- Astro Integrations Explained — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/astro-integrations-explained)
- AI: Artificial Incompetence — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/ai-artificial-incompetence)
- Pixel Perfect: studiocms.dev — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/pixel-perfect-studiocms-dev)
- How to Test Your Astro Site — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/how-to-test-your-astro-site)
- What building a UI library has taught me — lou.gg (https://lou.gg/blog/building-a-ui-lib)

## Languages

- German (native)
- English (full_professional)

## Other profiles

- github: https://github.com/louisescher
- website: https://lou.gg