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Emily Nakashima

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SVP of Operations at honeycomb.io
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Emily Nakashima is a senior engineering executive at Honeycomb with deep experience in B2B SaaS, specializing in scaling technical organizations. With a BA from Yale and an MBA from UC Berkeley, she focuses on an outcomes-over-outputs mindset and previously held engineering leadership roles at Bugsnag and GitHub.

Outside of her executive role, Emily is a committed generalist involved in various causes. She advocates for racial justice within Japanese American/Nikkei organizations and supports disaster preparedness as a member of her local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).

She is a frequent conference speaker who used em dashes in her writing long before AI made them popular.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
SVP of Operations
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Priorities

Topics Emily cares about

Engineering Leadership
As an SVP, she frequently speaks on leadership topics, including her "30 minute MBA for engineering leaders" talk, focusing on business fundamentals for engineers.
Observability & Cloud Costs
Core to her work at Honeycomb, she speaks on observability, SLOs, and controlling telemetry data volume to manage cloud costs effectively.
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Career

Work history

9-2026
SVP of Operations
honeycomb.io
3-2025 - 9-2026
SVP of Engineering
honeycomb.io
2-2020 - 2-2025
VP of Engineering
honeycomb.io
7-2018 - 2-2020
Director of Engineering
honeycomb.io
9-2017 - 7-2018
Engineering Manager
honeycomb.io
In the press

Media appearances

Emily Nakashima - SVP, Engineering at Honeycomb. Featured in Honeycomb Blog
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Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering. Featured in Honeycomb Blog
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Education
BA
Yale University
7-2024 - 6-2026
MBA (EMBA program)
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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