Summary
Chester Mclaughlin is an engineering manager and communicator with nine years of professional engineering experience and a long history of translating strategic vision into clear, effective technology and marketing solutions. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he has led teams and shipped products across startups, agencies, and nonprofits—most recently as Engineering Manager at CodingIT after senior and lead engineering roles at Remote Village and Zeek Interactive. He blends hands-on technical leadership with a consultative mindset from running his own communication and technology practice since 2012, helping organizations choose tools that disappear into seamless human processes. Chester’s background creating interactive multimedia for global brands and managing IT and marketing technology for educational and camp organizations gives him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency in design, messaging, and implementation. He’s driven by an insatiable curiosity about what moves people to act and by making technology feel invisible when done right.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer