Marina Nitze
Crisis Engineer & Partner at Layer Aleph
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMarina Nitze is a crisis engineer and partner with 13 years of experience turning catastrophic outages and policy failures into durable institutional improvements. As co-founder of Layer Aleph she embeds hands-on in organizations to repair systems under pressure, and her upcoming book, Crisis Engineering, reframes crises as opportunities for transformative change. She previously built and led the Digital Service at the Department of Veterans Affairs as CTO and founder of DSVA, delivering major programs like appeals modernization and VA.gov. Marina also leads the Child Welfare Playbook coalition to scale kinship-focused foster care practices nationwide, blending technical rigor with public-sector impact. Based in Seattle, she combines early web development roots and small-business efficiency consulting with a rare ability to ship practical, resilient solutions when systems cannot afford to fail.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
data-management10
open-data10
portal10
frontend10
barcodes9
bar-code8
css7
paperclip6
ruby-on-rails6
arel6
ransack6
svg5
rails-app5
ruby5
rubygems5
Programming languages (10)
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
bar-codebarcodes
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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