Wow. I could have sworn you were writing about us... I'm part of a small team of expats from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix healthcar

Wow. I could have sworn you were writing about us... I'm part of a small team of expats from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix healthcare.gov. (Mostly Stanford, Google, YCombinator folks) We started our company, Nava, to bring the best of SV startups to DC and create software that radically improves how our government serves its people. Our trajectory is very similar to what you've described, with some tweaks that I won't go into here. In the last 6 months, we've launched 2 major projects: - App 2.0, the new insurance application for healthcare.gov. It's processing 70% of apps coming through the marketplace, and: converts 35% more people than the old app, gets them through in half the time, is mobile-friendly (20% of apps), sits on robust, scalable infrastructure, etc etc. It was the first system that CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) ever hosted on Amazon AWS. - Scalable Login System (SLS), the new identity management system for healthcare.gov. Sadly, the main achievement here is that the system is actually up and available, unlike its predecessor. It's now saving the taxpayer $70M in annual maintenance costs. Here's a Wired article from last summer about us: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp/ http://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp/ Our momentum is strong, the problem is important, and we're looking for good people. If you're the type that would get fired up about reimagining broken government experiences and technology, please drop us a line at jobs@navahq.com, we'd love to hear from you!