# Calvin Laughlin III

> Software Engineer @ Luma AI | Making Human Things with Computers

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/calvinlaughliniii

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Luma AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto

### Member of Technical Staff @ Context
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA

### Product Engineer @ CloneForce
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### CS198 Section Leader @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Stanford, California, United States
CS106A section leader

### President @ Stanford Students in Entertainment
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Stanford's tech + entertainment club

### Student Fellow @ The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
• Conducted research on the impact of Telegram, a popular communication application, in the Russo-Ukrainian war
• Programmed a web-scraping application that trawled multiple Telegram groups and saved their content for future research purposes

### Director @ Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Member of Stanford's premier entrepreneurship association, on the social impact team
• Contracted and secured founders of social impact startups (Earth Cups, Homeboy Industries, etc.) to have them speak at our annual social impact speaker series, an event attended by over 400 people designed to promote careers in socially responsible and sustainable organizations
• Collaborated with local Palo Alto high schools to plan BASES FLI initiative (First-Generation, Low Income), a week of events that aims to make entrepreneurship more accessible
• Organized with the team the BASES Social Impact Pitch Competition in collaboration with SK Ventures

### AmpliMask Creator @ SHINING WAY SOURCING LTD
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Researched and drafted a patent for the AmpliMask, a microphone and speaker apparatus that can attach onto any mask to allow for uninhibited speech
• Raised $2,000 from investors and collaborated with factories in China to create a mold and 30 updated AmpliMask prototypes
• Interfaced with 15 McDonalds and the TCL Chinese Theater to test the prototypes
• Uploaded a Kickstarter project by providing compelling and educational copy and communicated with buyers 
• Programmed in HTML and JavaScript to create a functional website aiding in investor sourcing

### Homeboy Kids Lead @ Homeboy Industries
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Launched a new chapter of Homeboy Industries with the help of Father Greg Boyle, titled Homeboy Kids, a program designed to provide 40 children (ages 10-18) of the Homeboys with experiences to broaden their educational and recreational horizons
• Negotiated with businesses to underwrite free tickets to the California Science Center, Knott’s Berry Farm, Speed Zone Go Karting and Mini Golf, and TCL Chinese Theater for reducing administrative costs for the organization and ensuring enriching experiences for the participants


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Loyola High School of Los Angeles


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/calvinlaughlin3
- Portfolio: https://calvinlaughlin.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11