Emily Nakashima
SVP Of Engineering at honeycomb.io
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Nakashima is an experienced engineering leader with 14 years building and scaling B2B SaaS teams, currently SVP of Engineering at Honeycomb where she rose through roles from engineer to executive. She combines a business-first mindset with deep technical chops in observability, frontend platforms, performance optimization, and SLO-driven reliability, and champions inclusion and equity as levers for high-performing teams. A frequent conference speaker, she pairs strategic leadership with hands-on experience—her GitHub contributions include practical backend enhancements to community projects like RailsBridge’s event system. Based in San Francisco and pursuing an EMBA at Berkeley Haas, she balances operational rigor with community engagement, from trail work to disaster preparedness.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Computer Science, Architecture, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyEMBA '26 [candidate], EMBA '26 [candidate] at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBA, Architecture, BA, Architecture at Yale University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (8)
event-manager10
eventbus10
devise10
rails10
event-handling10
ruby-on-rails10
icalendar9
activerecord9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
railsbridge/bridge_troll
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
Event management system for all the Bridges (RailsBridge, MobileBridge, GoBridge, etc!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Emily contributed to the RailsBridge event management system by modifying core application behavior and features. Their work includes adjustments to devise session timeouts, updating user interface elements such as the "Attend" button, and adding the ability for users to select a chapter during registration. Additionally, the user implemented functionality for exporting session data to iCalendar format. These changes reflect an understanding of application logic, user authentication, and event scheduling.
management-systemevent-management-systemevent-managementrailsruby
eanakashima/andconf
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:30 PRs, 60 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 9 months
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