Stephen Laughton
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolStephen Laughton is a front-end and mobile engineer in Vancouver with 11 years of experience building high-performance React Native and React web apps, and a track record of shipping cross-platform products from startup to acquisition. As former CTO of Easy Expense and Head of Mobile at Maple, he led large rewrites, introduced a mono-repo and cross-platform design system, and moved teams to Expo with OTA updates to accelerate delivery and improve maintainability. He specializes in clean UI and intuitive UX, with hands-on work improving developer velocity and mentoring teams as the primary PR reviewer. Stephen also contributes to notable open-source UI tooling—working on Tamagui’s studio theme builder—reflecting a focus on polish and design-system parity between web and native. His background in audio engineering and large-scale digital archiving reveals a practical, client-focused problem-solving style and a talent for running self-directed projects end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science at Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (10)
css-in-js10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
css8
atomic8
ui-design8
react-native8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tamagui/tamagui
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Style React fast with 100% parity on React Native, an optional UI kit, and optimizing compiler.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 PRs, 3 pushes, 9 branches in 8 days
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily worked on the "studio" application, contributing to the theme builder component. Their work involved removing elements, refining theme selection, and syncing color schemes. They also fixed display issues and added labels for clarity in the user interface. The user's contributions focused on UI improvements and adjustments within the Tamagui framework.
optimizing-compilercompileroptimizingui-componentsui-kit
stephenlaughton/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Jul 2022
my dotfiles
Contributions:167 commits, 1 PR, 194 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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