Emily Sears
Senior Software Engineer at Toast
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Sears is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boston with nine years of hands-on experience designing scalable web systems and shipping production software at consumer-facing companies. She progressed through multiple engineering levels at Wayfair before joining Toast, demonstrating strong growth in backend and full-stack responsibilities. Her background includes building educational web tooling in Python and Brython and leading a 26-person teaching assistant team, reflecting both technical depth and people leadership. Emily combines practical engineering with a knack for improving developer and student experiences, having designed mentoring programs and user-facing tooling early in her career. Comfortable across Python, web UI, and system integrations, she excels at turning ambiguous problems into maintainable solutions. Colleagues value her for steady technical ownership and an educator’s attention to usability and developer onboarding.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Southbank International SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Hamilton College
EnglishGithub contributions (2)
mreading/keeptrack
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 24 pushes in 1 month
ecsears/advent-of-code-2023
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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