Summary
Nessa Marin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Toronto with over a decade of experience designing and operating distributed systems across payments, onboarding, and clinician-facing products. She has progressed from hands-on full‑stack roles to engineering leadership at companies like Etsy, Stitch Fix, and Galileo, where she built teams, shipping-critical compliance and payments features under tight timelines. Nessa pairs deep technical fluency in authorization, SOA and cloud architectures with a track record of improving team resilience, mentorship, and delivery during organizational change. She also coaches neurodivergent tech leaders through her venture Divergent Minds Thrive, bringing uncommon empathy and systems thinking to people and product problems. Known for turning legacy codebases into well-tested, maintainable platforms, she thrives at the intersection of developer ergonomics and scalable production systems. Continuous delivery, pragmatic refactoring, and building onboarding experiences that reduce friction are recurring themes in her work.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The Internet
English