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Conrad Irwin: three companies in one engineering career

Conrad Irwin is an engineer who co-founded Rapportive and Superhuman and now works on Zed.

Conrad Irwin co-founded Rapportive with Rahul Vohra in 2010. Rapportive showed contact details inside Gmail. LinkedIn bought it in 2012.

Before Superhuman he was VP of Engineering at Bugsnag. He then joined Vohra and Vivek Sodera as co-founder and CTO of the Superhuman email client.

Public bios from 2025 describe him as previously co-founder and CTO of Superhuman, and as currently working on Zed, a code editor aimed at fast collaboration between people and AI.

He has given talks on engineering and on building developer tools.

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Who is Conrad Irwin?

Conrad Irwin is a co-founder of Superhuman, the email client, where he was chief technology officer. He co-founded it with Rahul Vohra and Vivek Sodera.

What did Conrad Irwin do before Superhuman?

He co-founded Rapportive with Rahul Vohra in 2010. LinkedIn acquired it in 2012. He was later VP of Engineering at Bugsnag.

What is Conrad Irwin working on now?

A 2025 speaker bio says he is working on Zed, a code editor built for collaboration with humans and AI.