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Emil Sit

Engineering Leader, Scaling Teams and Technology — MIT PhD, ex-Toast, ex-HubSpot — See my Manager README

Emil Sit is a seasoned individual who excels in creating and leading organizations towards achieving remarkable impacts.

With a solid academic foundation in Computer Science, including a PhD and MEng from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emil combines his technical expertise with personal interests in yoga and classical music.

His management style is characterized by a people-centered and tech-aware approach, with a strong emphasis on customer focus and continuous improvement.

Emil has a rich professional history, having held key positions in various prominent organizations.

His roles have included Fractional Engineering Leader at Pallet, Senior Director of Engineering at Toast in both Developer Platform and Fintech divisions, Director of Engineering at Toast, Senior Technical Lead at HubSpot, and Technical Lead/Manager at Hadapt which was later acquired by Teradata.

Emil has also served as Principal Software Engineer at Hadapt (acquired by Teradata), Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware, Research Assistant at MIT, and Software Engineer at Cisco Systems.

Emil Sit's experience, blend of skills, and commitment to driving organizational success make him a valuable asset in any leadership role.

Highlights

Apr 21 · linkedin

How have you used your software engineering background to build great test frameworks?

At Toast we have complex processes for managing customer data that span in-house built infrastructure, Salesforce, and other systems. An ability to iterate quickly on these processes means better outcomes for our customers, as our business can respond quickly to changing needs.

Well built tests are a key part of this — we look for software engineers who understand the value of writing tests to the same standard as our production code. Whether it's JUnit or Playwright matters less than having test written at the right level of abstraction, using realistic test data.

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