Emil Petersen
Chief Executive Officer at Subit
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Petersen is a self-taught software leader and CEO with a decade of experience building scalable, maintainable web platforms from early-stage startups to growth phases. As CTO and co-founder of Subit he combines product-first thinking with hands-on engineering to deliver lightweight planning tools for schools while steering company strategy. His background spans backend-heavy stacks (Laravel, Symfony, MySQL, AWS) and frontend integrations (Vue, React), informed by roles scaling platforms across countries and complex banking integrations. Emil thrives in fast-moving agile environments where prioritization constantly shifts, yet he maintains a strong focus on reusable, high-quality solutions. Known for being “busy being RESTful,” he brings pragmatic API design and integration expertise that isn’t obvious from a title alone. Based in Copenhagen, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with day-to-day technical craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Technical Examination
Danish, English
Github Skills (13)
jsonwebtoken9
jwt9
parsing9
laravel9
authentication9
php8
rest8
openapi7
laravel-package7
csv7
excel4
phpoffice1
phpexcel1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ebsp/resting
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Typed, validation-first REST resources for Laravel - one definition powers request parsing, response shaping, and OpenAPI 3 generation
Contributions:6 releases, 59 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 7 months
laravelopenapiparsingrest
subit-io/expo-laravel
Feb 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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