About Emil
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Work #
I lead engineering organizations. My leadership style prioritizes developing leadership at all levels to facilitate aligned but decentralized execution, focused on rapid iteration to deliver high quality product to customers.
I helped shape the growth of the engineering organization at Toast from ~30 engineers in 2016 to nearly 1000 in 2024. The hypergrowth of the organization involved collaboration with many other leaders to handle:
- recruiting and evolving recruiting practices
- defining the career ladder and promotion process
- the on-call and incident response process
- defining and iterating on global R&D onboarding and enablement
- establishing the Dublin office
I have hired or promoted leaders from new graduates to the director / principal engineer level.
Over my career, my teams have built:
- Internal tooling and training for >500 developers
- Fintech / Payment Processing services supporting >$100m in daily processing volume
- SaaS B2C2B (Sales Enablement products) and B2C (Digital food ordering) products scaling from 10k to 250k WAUs
- Enterprise infrastructure (virtualization and database solutions)
Find more information on LinkedIn.
Academia #
I completed my PhD at MIT’s Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems research group, under Prof. Frans Kaashoek and Prof. Robert T Morris. My research focused on peer-to-peer storage systems, where I was a lead developer of the Chord/DHash distributed hash table.
My interests included practical distributed systems, security, and network measurement.
Music #
I play the piano, with a focus on classical music. I studied at the Manhattan School of Music’s Pre-College Division under Solomon Mikowsky and Robin Freund-Epstein.