Louie Christie

Adventurous, tech geek, underground comedian in my own head. 😬

A surfer on a wave. He's crouching, touching the wave with his hand as the wave breaks. The wave is chest high, blue-green color. There are brown-green hills in the background on the land.

Adventure

Louie Christie at React Native conference photo 2018

Professional
IT Consultant

Louie Christie performing stand-up comedy while audience laughs. On the wall behind there is a big painting of Tommy Cooper and smaller photos of various famous stand up comedians. Louie is pointing at the audience and seems to be having a good time. His hair is in a man bun. He's pointing at a woman in the audience and she has her hands crossed in front of her face as if she doesn't want to talk. Which is ironic, because it was about the only time in the whole night that she shut up.

Unprofessional
Comedian
"He'd rather hire a great software coder who also did stand-up comedy."- Andy Miller on Steve Jobs

Hi, I'm Louie Christie. I've had a varied career including:

  • developing software to fight financial crime
  • hosting tech events but I can't do a forced fun face
  • user-friendly tech consultant for Kings College on a beautiful mental health app to slow down paranoid thinking [1],
    which is literally the opposite to what most apps do
  • developing apps & websites almost as fast as tech startups can go bust
  • podcast host mostly as an excuse to have a laugh with my mates
  • panellist on a YouTube quiz show about video games
  • coaching coding to French students while half expecting the guillotine
  • IT support mostly telling people to 'switch it off-and-on again'
  • programming mainframe computers older and more decrepid than myself
  • waiting tables, snowboarding, and dodging bears in Canada
  • leading youth camps on Kangaroo Island
  • pig farming in the desert

I have a masters degree in human-centred computer systems.

No, I'm not sure what that means either.

Think it's something to do with making computers user-friendly.

And goodness knows, we could all do with a bit of that.

When I'm not coding...

I can be found in London performing questionable quality stand-up comedy.

In small dark basements in rooms above pubs. (And virtual reality.)

[1] more evidence based than Theranos

Virtually Funny Comedy - VR
Music and Chat Podcast NSFW ⑯
Louie in a bubble bath. Title reads: 'I learned a valuable lesson today. Don’t eat baked beans before a bath'
Memes

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Louie Christie ment§oring a pixelated student

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