Emil Sit

I create and lead organizations to deliver outsized impact, while expanding and improving their capabilities. I have 15+ years of management, leadership and software engineering experience at companies including Toast, HubSpot and VMware, backed by a PhD in Computer Science from the distributed systems research group at MIT. Combined with my personal experience practicing yoga and classical music, I bring a people-centered and tech-aware approach to management that emphasizes incremental improvement.

Recent Writings

The Study of Asian Tycoons

21 February 2025·2 mins

Cedric Chin recently started a series on The Study of Asian Tycoons. How are Asian conglomerates different from Western businesses?

How to use LLM codegen tools

20 February 2025·1 min

Harper Reed documents his current LLM codegen workflow: effectively using LLMs in an agentic way via different prompts. He first uses an architect and then a project planner and finally a software engineer.

Inclusive practices that win will beget more inclusion

20 February 2025·1 min

Charity Majors takes on the recent rollbacks of DEI policies at major companies, writing that Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals.

AI Coding Tools Stifle Tech Adoption

15 February 2025·2 mins

Declan Chidlow expresses concern that AI is stifling tech adoption.

Deepseek Staffs for Innovation Potential

31 January 2025·2 mins

How did DeepSeek achieve such remarkable capabilites in their recent models? In various interviews, founder Liang Wenfeng explains his approach on staffing a culture of innovation.