Summary
Mike Mclaughlin is a Developer Success Engineer with over a decade of hands-on software and customer-facing experience, currently helping teams adopt LiveKit. He excels at troubleshooting complex enterprise deployments—Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/EKS, OpenShift and on-prem environments—and has a deep systems background from C/C++ to Python and JavaScript. Previously a Principal Customer Engineer at Sourcegraph and Senior Field Engineer at Imply, he guides customers from PoC to production while enabling users and scaling deployments. Mike combines technical fluency with strong presentation skills, able to brief C-level execs or lead engineer workshops and trainings. His career blends product-facing technical sales engineering with core engineering roles, so he often bridges feature requests back into engineering and documentation. Based in Chicago, he quietly pairs enterprise-grade debugging instincts with a builder’s mindset rooted in storage, analytics, and automation.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology