Summary
Jonny Mclaughlin is a founding engineer and seasoned creative technologist with a decade of experience building playful, animation-driven experiences across startups and major platforms. He has held senior engineering and product roles at GIPHY and Meta, contributed creative developer work at Figma, and now helps shape LaDiDa’s early technical direction. Jonny’s background spans the video game and advertising industries and includes a high-profile stint at Tumblr that earned him Creator of the Year in 2014, with work featured in WIRED, TechCrunch, Mashable, Engadget, and Business Insider. Known on GitHub as a “console cowboy,” he blends frontend animation craft with product-minded engineering to make interactions feel fun and delightful. Based in upstate New York, he brings an unusual mix of creative pedigree and production-scale engineering to founding-stage product challenges.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The Internet
English, Irish