
Meet Emily Zhang, Joining as Founding Product Engineer!

Anna Sun
Updated on February 10, 2025
We’re super excited for Emily Zhang as a Founding Product Engineer at Nowadays! 🎉 Emily is a design-focused technologist and an event planner at heart. She’s graduating from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Design, bringing a unique blend of technical expertise and user-centric thinking to the team!

Beyond engineering, Emily has planned large-scale events for hundreds of attendees—serving as President of MIT Pi Beta Phi, Director of MIT xFair career fair, and President of MIT MINCE, a monthly, student-run fine dining experience designed to be affordable for MIT students. She has seamlessly balanced logistics, creativity, and execution to bring memorable experiences to life.
Outside of work, you can find Emily cooking up a storm, sipping on coffee or matcha, exploring art and design, and hanging out with dogs :)

Here are a few more snippets about Emily:
- Hometown: Irvine, California
- Education: MIT, Computer Science & Design
Welcome to the team, Emily!

