Emil Vaughan
VP, Head Of Citymapper Engineering at Via
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEmil Vaughan is a mathematics-trained software leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling urban mobility products, now serving as VP and Head of Citymapper Engineering at Via. He progressed from software engineer at Citymapper to senior algorithm and engineering leadership roles, blending rigorous academic problem-solving from a PhD with hands-on product delivery. Emil focuses on algorithmic systems and operationalising research into reliable, user-facing transit solutions across city-scale platforms. Based in London, he is comfortable shifting between research-led innovation and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs, and he has a track record of turning complex routing and optimization challenges into production-ready services.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mathematics, PhD Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London
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Github Skills (38)
fuzzy-logic9
dfa9
wolfram-language8
relational-algebra8
python-requests8
cas8
sage8
symbolic-math8
sympy8
agda7
mathematics7
http7
python7
nsstring6
cocoa-touch6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
emil79/flagmatic
Nov 2014 - Mar 2020
A package for doing flag algebra computations with the Sage mathematics system. Written in Python and Cython.
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
pythonmathematicsnumbaagdacas
citymapper/go-minipypi
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Minimal pypi web server that proxies all requests to an S3 bucket
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 comments in 1 month
asgipythonproxypypiweb-server
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