Conor McLaughlin
Summary
Life: Love learning, languages, technology, meditation, great fiction & non-fiction, writing, public displays of anime (PDA) / manhua / manga / manhwa, Postgres / Node / Python stacks, Hyrox, BJJ, Muay Thai, surfing, and being a catdog dad. I also take way too many supplements.
The Craft: Seasoned entrepreneur who created the #1 property portal in Indonesia and #2 in Southeast Asia with a $150M valuation. Lead product, engineering, and data science divisions from 0 to millions in ARR and monthly active users at 99.co. Built and lead high-performance teams up to sizes of 60 across many product verticals. Scaled Inkah to 10K weekly active learners across iOS, Android, Chrome & Firefox. Drove 0 to hundreds of thousands and a million+ dollars in ARR at Conduit, EditGPT & Clearpol.
Angel Investor
Actively seeking angel investment opportunities in early-stage startups, particularly in AI/ML, developer tools, EdTech, and healthcare technology. With experience scaling companies from zero to millions in ARR, I bring operational expertise alongside capital.
Interested in discussing investment opportunities? Get in touch.
Experience
Chief Architect
Feb 2024 - PresentLead engineering and product for a team of 8 to build our first monetizable enterprise product, going from 0 to $1.2M in ARR. Integrated EHRs, state/federal regulations, Anthropic, OpenAI & Gemini. Migrated to Azure and acquired SOC2 Type 1, Type 2, Type 3 & HIPAA compliance certifications. Built ETL pipelines for terabytes of daily EHR data. Served as business strategy advisor.
Fractional CTO
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024Aided companies including Conduit (Logistics - YCW24), Clearpol Inc, and EditGPT with business strategy, product development, and engineering. Rebuilt Svelte frontend and migrated Django backend for Conduit, helping drive ARR to $300K. Architected EditGPT with Tiptap/Supabase, driving it to $300K ARR.
CEO & Co-Founder
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023Lead a global team of 10 to build the first block-based language learning app, growing to 10,000 passionate weekly active learners. Built the first semantic vector search engine for YouTube subs for language learning. Raised $240K.
CTO & Co-Founder
2013 - 2019Backed by Sequoia & Eduardo Saverin. $150M valuation. #1 property portal in Indonesia & #2 in SE Asia. Lead product, engineering, and data science from 0 to $6M ARR. Built teams from 0 to 60 staff across Singapore & Indonesia.
Full-stack Engineer & Support Lead
2012Co-designed mobile products for the United Nations, World Bank, non-profits, and NGOs using Javascript & Node.js.
Moving Pictures Group Co-op & Internships
2009 - 2011Iterated product development of Pixar's internal storyboarding software. Served as technical production assistant and later production coordinator for Inside Out.
Education & Accelerators
University of California, Berkeley
Double majored in CS and English Lit. Graduated on Dean's Honors List. Officer of UPE (CS Honors Society). Member of DPhiE (Foreign Service) & APhiO (Community Service).
Accelerator Alumni
Proud alumni and participant of world-class startup accelerators:
Skills
- Python: Django, SQL Alchemy, Pytest, Pytorch, FastAPI
- AI/ML: RAG, PGVector, Pinecone, Transformers, Diffusion Models, Finetuning, Hugging Face
- JS/TS: React, Node.js, GraphQL, Type-based ORMs, Svelte
- Infra: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Postgres HA, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB
- Compliance: SOC2 Type 1, 2, 3 & HIPAA
- Strategy: Agile, customer discovery, RICE planning, OKRs, SCRUM
Trans-Pacific Traveler
Lived and worked across the Pacific Rim, building products and teams in diverse cultural contexts.