About Nic

The person behind Laughter Consulting

Nic Laughter - Engineering Leader

Two Decades of Shipping Products

I've spent 20 years building software. My deepest expertise is in Swift, SwiftUI, and native iOS - I've worked with the Apple platform since the early days and shipped 25+ apps to the App Store.

My career includes contract work with Apple on App Attestation, plus roles at Google, Rakuten, and numerous startups. I've migrated legacy codebases, built apps from scratch, and optimized performance for products serving millions of users.

I'm not just an iOS developer. I've shipped Android apps in Kotlin, built cross-platform solutions with Flutter and React Native, and managed DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for multiple companies. I've led engineering teams and served in management roles.

I'm also a certified Professional Scrum Master. I've planned sprints, managed backlogs, run standups, and kept projects on track and on budget. I understand how to balance technical debt with feature velocity, communicate progress to stakeholders, and remove blockers so teams can focus on building.

What sets me apart is range combined with depth. I can architect systems, mentor teams, and ship code. I work across the full stack - mobile, web, cloud, and DevOps - with particular depth on iOS, from UIKit to SwiftUI to modern async/await concurrency.

Whether you need a senior engineer to ship code, a technical leader to guide architecture, or a fractional CTO to build your technical strategy - I can help.

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Sprint planning, backlog management, and agile delivery

Foundations of Project Management

Google

Project lifecycle, methodologies, and organizational structure

Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Cloud concepts, Azure services, security, and governance

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Cloud infrastructure, services, and deployment fundamentals

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