Carla likes debugging complex systems, especially those made of both software and humans. Her work spans Google and multiple federal agencies with the United States Digital Services. Most recently, Carla led a team at Fastly to fix systemic resilience problems. Her team’s work addressed a widespread outage, retained customers, and dramatically improved recovery time of core caching systems.

Matthew Weaver helps leaders solve both urgent and long-term strategic problems. While many of his recent engagements have been confidential, he was recognized by Fast Company for his role in building the first Digital Service team for the U.S. government after rescuing Healthcare.gov. At USDS, he led successful technical interventions across 11 federal agencies, with budgets ranging from $100 million to $1.2 trillion.

Mikey helped lead the Healthcare.gov rescue, for which he was featured on the cover of TIME magazine. Afterwards, President Obama appointed him Deputy Chief Information Officer of the United States. Part of this involved Mikey being charged with establishing the United States Digital Service (USDS) to bring America’s top technologists into government and solve its hardest and most pressing IT challenges. In addition to recruiting hundreds of developers and designers to join the federal government for tours of duty, he has led the successful transformation of a major, multi-million dollar IT project at nearly every federal agency. Prior to USDS, Mikey served as one of the earliest Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) at Google. There, he spent 8 years growing and managing a team of SREs – the kind of engineer responsible for ensuring one of the world’s most ubiquitous websites is safe and functioning, 24/7/365.

Marina’s specialty is solving big, painful problems that others would rather avoid — particularly those that involve a backlog. As the former CTO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Marina and her team drastically improved veterans’ access to care and services. Her teams’ effort helped increase veteran trust in the agency by 25%. Marina has been at the forefront of multiple hundred-million-dollar IT rescue and transformation projects. These efforts often went beyond restoration and propelled agencies into the future with processes like instant claims. Most recently, Marina and her team at Layer Aleph helped Governor Newsom solve California’s unemployment claim crisis as part of a “Strike Team.” Within 45 days of their involvement, claim automation increased from 60% to more than 94%.