Marina Nitze
Partner at Policy Entrepreneurs Network
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMarina Nitze is a seasoned technology leader and public-interest innovator focused on crisis engineering and child-welfare reform. As former CTO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and founder of the United States Digital Service, she built the VA’s first Digital Service team and led flagship digital initiatives like vets.gov and Caseflow, introducing cloud and modern development practices to the agency. She has held senior policy-tech roles at the White House and Department of Education, advancing open data and scalable digital services across the federal government. Today she is a partner at Layer Aleph, leading crisis engineering to rapidly restore and harden complex systems for mission-critical operations. She is the author of Hack Your Bureaucracy and Crisis Engineering, and volunteers her expertise across New America, Think of Us, Foster America, and related initiatives to improve child welfare at scale. Based in Seattle, Marina combines hands-on engineering with strategic policy insight to turn ambitious reforms into auditable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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428reached
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Github Skills (50)
data-management10
open-data10
portal10
frontend10
barcodes8
css7
swiftui6
ruby-on-rails6
arel6
ransack6
ruby6
rubygems6
mruby5
fontawesome5
package5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
department-of-veterans-affairs/MBOOP
Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
Generate and track barcodes for keeping track of folders, inventory, equipment, etc.
Contributions:34 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
inventorybarcodeskeeping
MarinaNitze/cgm-remote-monitor
May 2019 - Nov 2021
nightscout web monitor
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
nightscoutmonitornightscout-web-monitorweb-monitor
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