Adam Laughlin
Startup Founder at Comprehension
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Laughlin is a product-minded startup founder and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and consumer-facing web products. He blends hands-on engineering—TypeScript, React, Vite, AST transforms, and observability—with strategic product research, having prototyped AI-driven static analysis and a VSCode extension that cut onboarding time and cognitive errors for engineers. As a technical lead at HubSpot and team lead at Switchfly he drove large migrations, re-architected frontend infrastructure, and cut developer feedback loops from minutes to seconds, directly improving productivity and satisfaction. His ventures span founding Efficacy and Comprehension to healthcare and wellbeing projects, showing a pattern of applying measurement and tooling to reduce cognitive load. Based in the Denver area, he pairs UX empathy and data-driven decision making with a bias for building developer experiences that scale. An unexpected throughline: he repeatedly shrinks routine task overhead—sometimes by orders of magnitude—freeing teams to focus on higher-value work.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS CS, Bachelor of Science - BS CS at University of Colorado BoulderB.A. Psychology, B.A. Psychology at Hope College
English, Spanish, Latin
Github Skills (129)
windows10
apollo10
javascript10
linux10
exchange10
raycast10
urql10
caching10
graphql-client10
graphql10
react10
editor9
crud9
material-ui9
stitch9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
a-laughlin/sandbox
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
frameworksaccelerate
a-laughlin/composable-react-architecture
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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