Emil Olesen
Senior Software Engineer at Picogrid
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Olesen is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack, scalable systems and cloud/edge infrastructure, currently serving as the first engineering hire at Picogrid to architect their core commercial Legion and Portal platform. He previously scaled recommendation systems at Aiden.ai through acquisition into Twitter and has hands-on experience across front-end React, back-end architecture, and devops from projects spanning startups to university news platforms. Emil pairs technical depth with strong people skills—he’s led selection processes and volunteer teams at United World Colleges Denmark, investing ~500 hours/year in organizing multi-stage recruitment and activities. Comfortable in both startup scrappiness and structured engineering environments, he also experiments with independent facilitation and community-building approaches that shape how teams communicate and ship.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Magna Cum Laude Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Magna Cum Laude Computer Science at New York University Abu DhabiInternational Baccalaureate International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate International Baccalaureate at UWC Red Cross Nordic
English, Danish, Chinese, German
Github Skills (200)
e2e-testing10
cms10
postgresql10
web-application10
testing10
http10
styled-components10
e2e10
web-development10
stylelint10
portable10
javascript10
browser10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
emilgoldsmith/elm-speedcubing
Jan 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:28 PRs, 210 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 4 months
emilgoldsmith/GoodLiving
Sep 2018 - May 2019
My capstone project on finding good places to live
Contributions:2 PRs, 125 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
capstonejavascriptfinding
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