Samantha Farmer
Senior Database Engineer
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Farmer is a Senior Database Engineer based in Oakland with 14 years of experience building scalable data systems and polished UIs across startups and mid-size companies. She blends backend systems and frontend craftsmanship—evident from significant contributions to InfluxData projects like InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Flux where she improved UI components, added TypeScript and unit tests, refactored AST handling, and enabled WebAssembly formatting. Samantha has led technical teams and shipped tooling and dashboard features that bridge developer ergonomics and production reliability. Comfortable in full-stack roles, she brings a pragmatic focus on test coverage, maintainable refactors, and performance-sensitive data tooling. An early habit of working across languages and layers means she often spots cross-cutting improvements others miss, such as propagating time-format options from backend to visualization.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.4, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.4 at Missouri Southern State University
Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:650 commits, 203 PRs, 241 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Samantha primarily focused on front-end development within the InfluxDB project, specifically working on UI components. They were involved in fixing tests related to OAuth callbacks and were a co-author of commits adding tests for the `GraphOptionsTimeFormat` component, indicating their role in improving UI functionality and test coverage. Furthermore, they contributed code related to the display of dashboard data.
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influxdata/chronograf
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Open source monitoring and visualization UI for the TICK stack
Role in this project:Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 579 commits, 337 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Samantha contributed to the Chronograf UI and backend, primarily fixing bugs related to OAuth callback testing, and implementing a table graph feature. They also worked on propagating time format options to the table graphs. Additionally, the user was involved in converting a time format component to TypeScript and adding unit tests for the component.
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