Samanta De Barros
Software Engineer at item (YC F25)
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolSamanta De Barros is a senior full-stack software engineer based in Montevideo with over a decade of hands-on experience building web applications across startups, consultancies, and product teams. She has deep expertise in Ember.js and Ruby on Rails, mentoring teams through pair programming and code reviews while delivering production features and API migrations. Her background spans .NET, WPF, and Java desktop apps to modern React+Rails and GraphQL architectures, reflecting strong adaptability across stacks. Samanta has contributed to the documentation of the prominent Ember.js project, improving developer experience with clearer examples for routing and array methods. She’s worked in fast-paced YC-backed and consultancy environments where she progressed from individual contributor to team lead roles that required both client-facing communication and technical ownership. Known for turning complex requirements into maintainable implementations, she combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniera en Computación, Ingeniera en Computación at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (4)
ember10
javascript10
documentation10
javascript-framework10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/ember.js
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Samanta's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the documentation of the Ember.js framework. They added and improved code examples, providing developers with clearer usage instructions for key features like `currentRoute`, `location`, `transitionTo`, `replaceWith`, and `recognize`. The commits also included corrections and simplifications to documentation related to EmberArray methods, like `every`, `addArrayObserver`, `filter`, and `filterBy`. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving developer experience through comprehensive and easily understandable documentation.
web-applicationsjavascript-frameworkjavascriptemberjsember
sdebarros/ember-simple-auth
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
A library for implementing authentication/authorization in Ember.js applications.
Contributions:50 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
authorizationauthenticationemberjs-applicationsember-js
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