Samantha Combs is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and resilient backend systems, currently based in Philadelphia and working at Willow Servicing. Her background spans front-end leadership and full-stack roles, with hands-on experience in C-family languages, .NET, Node.js, SQL, and UI/CSS improvements from contributions to notable open-source projects like Apostrophe CMS. She has a demonstrated ability to move between research-driven engineering and product delivery—earlier work includes algorithmic simulation in civil engineering research and embedded systems for energy monitoring. At Use All Five she led front-end development, and her career shows a pattern of shipping practical features, fixing tricky bugs, and improving developer workflows. Fluent across diverse technical stacks, she brings a mix of academic rigor (MSE from Johns Hopkins) and product-focused execution to solve complex problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Mathematics at Eckerd College
A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Samantha contributed to the Apostrophe CMS by implementing features related to the media library and slideshow widgets. They added functionality to display image size information and incorporated an information button with a modal to the slideshow image controls. The user also fixed bugs, such as the media library trash filter and the URL macro, while also merging in updates from the master branch. Additionally, the user added CSS styling for improved UI presentation.
Animate react components as they scroll in and out of view
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
reactanimationscrollreact-animateanimate
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Samantha Combs - Software Engineer at Willow Servicing