Nessa Marin
Staff Software Engineer at Divergent Minds Thrive
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNessa 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.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The Internet
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
elixir10
programming-language9
rspec9
compiler8
realtime8
property-based-testing8
podcast8
api-server8
penetration-testing7
security7
phoenix-framework7
pentesting7
oauth7
ruby-on-rails6
lita6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nessamurmur/dotfiles
Oct 2013 - Feb 2021
Contributions:172 commits, 5 PRs, 38 pushes in 7 years 5 months
dotfilesconfigsconfig
niftyn8/docker-elixir
Sep 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
docker-base-imageelixirdockerdocker-image
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