Emily Kowal
Engineering Manager II, Personalization
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Kowal is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently manages Personalization engineering at Spotify, previously leading Amplify and other teams within the company. She excels at organizing teams, hiring and mentoring diverse engineers, and building the operational and onboarding systems that help squads scale quickly. Her background spans newsroom CMS ownership at The Washington Post to architecting SaaS products at Axios, giving her deep experience across media, product, and data-driven systems. Emily combines hands-on technical fluency (Python, Django, React, GraphQL) with strong cross-functional collaboration—working closely with product, design, and editorial stakeholders. She’s known for creating documentation hubs and onboarding programs that accelerate new hires’ impact, and for co-leading employee resource groups to foster inclusive engineering cultures. Based in Richmond, VA, she brings a humanities-trained curiosity from a Classics BA to pragmatic engineering management.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Phillips Academy AndoverBachelor of Arts (BA), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Skidmore College
Latin, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
csv9
xml9
grid8
excel8
jstree8
spreadsheet8
nodejs8
json8
slack-integration7
xlsx7
javascript7
airtable7
vue7
react7
angular7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emottk/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
emottk/emottk.github.io
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:15 pushes in 23 days
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