Emiel Mols
CTO at Staying
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEmiel Mols is a pragmatic CTO and serial founder with 15 years of experience building lean, maintainable product engineering teams and shipped systems. He leads Crisp’s tech strategy in Amsterdam, blending vanilla PHP, Go and React to deliver a nimble stack that serves fresh, local food at scale while consciously managing technical debt. Prior to Crisp he founded consumer-focused apps (Happening, Into My Life) and co-founded Staying, demonstrating a pattern of turning social product ideas into production services. His academic background includes an MSc in Computer Science and a Spotify research stint on distributed full-text search, which informs his thoughtful approach to architecture and search-intensive problems. Emiel pairs hacker-driven hands-on coding with strategic leadership, favoring simple, well-designed abstractions over premature complexity. Outside the obvious, he focuses on balancing managed complexity and developer velocity to keep teams shipping reliably.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Twente
Github Skills (167)
swc10
python10
testing10
automation10
bundler10
nike10
declarative10
browserify10
home-assistant10
jscodeshift10
jsx10
javascript10
middleware10
mqtt10
chromium10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
EmielM/zmqcat
Apr 2012 - Oct 2018
netcat-style utility for zmq messaging
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 7 months
zmqnetcatmessaging
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