Sam Blinde
Engineering Manager Senior Software Engineer at Nearform
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSam Blinde is an engineering manager and senior front-end engineer with nine years of experience delivering user-focused web applications, especially in healthcare and e-commerce. She combines hands-on React, TypeScript, and Node.js expertise with leadership—managing teams, running hiring loops, and mentoring engineers while serving as scrum master and release manager. Sam contributes to notable open-source projects like Google's Web Stories for WordPress and Formidable Labs' Victory, where she improved editor UI, accessibility, and migrated components to TypeScript. Her media-design background gives her a strong product and UX sensibility, treating design as an inclusive process rather than just aesthetics. Passionate about mission-driven work, she balances technical craft with people-first leadership and direct collaboration with end users. Outside of work she’s a gamer and acrylic painter who brings creative curiosity to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Arts Communication, Associates of Arts Communication at Lehigh Carbon Community CollegeBachelor's Degree Media Design: Multimedia, Bachelor's Degree Media Design: Multimedia at Wilmington University
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Github Skills (16)
wordpress10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
accessibility9
charts8
google-amp7
ampl7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Web Stories for WordPress
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:122 reviews, 12 commits, 22 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the user interface and editor components of the WordPress web stories plugin. Their commits include implementing and modifying components such as the post-review dialog and checklist button. They also focused on improving the design system, addressing issues with pop-up menu positioning, and the accessibility of the elements. Additionally, the user made several changes to improve the shopping feature within the editor, focusing on how products with images are displayed.
wordpresswordpress-pluginampweb-stories
FormidableLabs/victory
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Sam's primary contributions involved migrating React components to TypeScript within the `victory-group`, `victory-scatter`, and `victory-errorbar` packages. This included type definition implementation, component structure adjustments, and test updates. They also made formatting fixes and adjusted props within the `victory-group` component. Their work focused on modernizing and improving the type safety of the project's front-end components.
chartsreactvisualizationscomposabledata-visualization
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