Samantha Gongora
DevOps Engineer at Fanatics
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Gongora is a DevOps and Cloud Engineer with nine years of experience building developer-focused platforms and production systems from startups to large-scale services. She combines a business-minded product sensibility with hands-on platform work—autogenerating OpenAPI specs at Twitter to boost developer velocity and automating Vault authentication and Terraform governance at Fanatics. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks, she has built microservices, leaderboards, and CI-driven Terraform checks while leading post‑mortems and mentoring peers. Samantha emphasizes user and platform understanding, collaborating closely with design, product, and technical writing to make tooling and documentation genuinely useful. Based in Boulder, she brings a practical blend of software engineering and operational rigor informed by formal backend training from Turing School and a liberal arts background. A pragmatic problem-solver, she favors measurable developer productivity gains and security-first infrastructure improvements.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government at The University of Texas at AustinBack End Engineering, Back End Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Github Skills (5)
ruby6
rails1
tasty1
object-oriented-programming1
scrabble1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samanthagongora/website
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
wratterman/rails_engine
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 23 pushes, 19 branches in 11 days
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