Emil Mikhailov

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

Work

Stealth Company

Building an audacious, aeronautics platform aimed at slashing cost-per-flight-hour and extending time-between-overhauls.
Currently recruiting elite mechanical, software, and systems engineers who thrive on ground-zero challenges

Cribl — Staff Product Manager, Search

  • Took Cribl Search from whiteboard to GA in < 6 months.
  • Scaled from $0 to over $3M in ARR, on track to reach $10M in ARR by the end of 2025
  • Shipped foundational features across 14 rapid releases.
  • Helped Fortune 100 customers by get insights from petabytes of data.
  • Insights and more details can be found in my Cribl blog posts (opens in a new tab).

XIX.ai: Founder and CEO

  • Former founder and CEO of XIX.ai, I led the development of Entry, a cutting-edge, sensorless biometric SSO for the Web. Immensely proud of our team's achievement in creating state-of-the-art facial recognition and anti-spoofing models for authentication. Explore the technical details here (opens in a new tab).
  • Raised over $5M, backed by Y Combinator (W2017), Two Bear Capital, CabraVC and fantastic group of angel investors.

Personal Pursuits and Interests

  • Deep Tech — 15 years writing and shipping code; obsessed with ML, control systems, and digital-engineering pipelines (SUAVE → OpenVSP → Fusion 360).
  • Aviation — Licensed pilot, designing and prototyping next-gen aircraft; figured out how to make the scramjets to work.
  • Impact Work — Applied ML to combat human trafficking, featured in Business Insider (opens in a new tab).

Life in SoCal

I live in Southern California, with my wife Anna and my son Michael.

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