Zak Laughton

Zak Laughton

Engineering leader in Austin, TX

Hey, I'm Zak Laughton

Engineering manager and full-stack engineer with 9 years at Atlassian. I care about building teams that are aligned, motivated, and doing their best work.

Currently open to engineering manager roles. Find me on GitHub, Twitter/X, or LinkedIn.

Projects

Delivery Forecast

A probabilistic delivery forecasting tool that runs Monte Carlo simulations to predict when software projects will ship, based on real team velocity rather than guesses.
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Writing

3 ways to time travel in Git to undo destructive mistakes

Botched a rebase? Nuked commits with a reset? Git has built-in tools to get you back without re-cloning.

The only 3 steps you need to mock an API call in Jest

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Can't figure out how to mock an API call in Jest? Start here. Three steps, no magic, no mystery.
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