Emil Sit Consulting

Strengthening organizations by coaching people and improving technology foundations.

I offer flexible consulting and coaching options to solve problems commonly facing growing engineering organizations, as well as mentoring for individuals seeking to improve their own abilities and positions.

Reach out to me at and let me know what your needs look like.

For Engineering Leaders (CTOs, VPs, and Directors) #

Do any of these problems resonate?

• Overloaded leadership with multiple top priorities
• Uneven or ineffective adoption of AI tools
• Escalating quality issues, leading to outages or other customer pain
• Decreasing engineering productivity, with changes feeling like they take longer to implement
• Team members struggling to adapt to changes in the scale or culture of the organization

As an experienced leader, I will work with you to diagnose problems your organization is facing and then help develop and implement a plan to address them.

When there are concrete technical goals, I combine my experience as a software engineer and tech lead with my academic background in distributed systems, to dive into your codebase and work directly with your team. I can quickly get a sense of where there may be opportunities to improve and make concrete suggestions.

Emil worked with our engineering team to help us mature as an organization and set a solid foundation to scale. He provided exceptional feedback on how our team can structure technical initiatives to maximize impact and develop our organization to lay a foundation to scale. He also worked with me directly to provide executive coaching on scaling to run a larger engineering team as well as senior engineers on our team on how they can maximize their impact.

Emil is both incredibly sharp technically and very business focused, making him a great choice for scaling engineering teams.

— Co-founder at a Series A tech startup

When working with companies, I can work using fixed scope statements of work or more flexible hourly options.

For Managers and Senior ICs #

If you are a manager or senior/staff/principal IC, I can act as experienced mentor to help you better understand your challenges and how you can improve your own abilities.

Common areas of coaching include:

• Scaling personal leadership and influence across a changing organization
• Driving technical changes
• Improving the foundation of technical fundamentals and engineering best practices
• Preparing for job searches or general career paths (e.g., balancing manager versus IC paths)

Emil mentored myself and 3 others directly on the topic of leadership. He created a safe space for us to be vulnerable and share our daily struggles trying to develop our own leadership skills. Emil provided incredible insight into our problems recommending small but powerful changes such as avoiding using why in our communication. He would always end our sessions with action items for us to follow up on before our next session which enabled us to improve actively between meetings. He also always had an article or book on hand for any leadership topic - he is constantly expanding his own leadership skills and expanding those of others.

— Technical Lead at Toast