Samantha Hughes
Staff Software Engineer at Earthmover
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Hughes is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack systems for startups and scale-ups from Portland, Oregon. She specializes in pragmatic, cross-functional engineering—helping teams choose the right CRM, cloud architecture, and code workflows so business and engineering operate in harmony rather than creating bottlenecks. Her recent roles span Staff and lead positions at companies like Coiled, Sync Computing, Capital One, and Earthmover, where she balanced hands-on development with team leadership and delivery ownership. An active contributor to open-source testing for the prominent Bokeh data-visualization library, she brings strong QA and automation skills that improve reliability across the stack. Trained in AI & Cybernetics, Samantha combines systems-level thinking with a startup mindset, often stepping beyond coding to solve operational and product challenges.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AI & Cybernetics, AI & Cybernetics at University of Reading
English
Github Skills (9)
data-visualizations10
unit-testing10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
bokeh10
unit-test10
python10
testing10
numpy8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bokeh/bokeh
Jan 2014 - Feb 2015
Interactive Data Visualization in the browser, from Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Samantha's contributions primarily focused on implementing and expanding the testing suite for the Bokeh library. The commits involve writing tests for core functionalities such as data serialization/deserialization, decorators, and glyph objects. The user added tests to test the functionality of the serialization/deserialization and refactored existing tests. They also added new tests for widget related features.
pythonvisualisationplottingbokehplots
asledgehammer/PipeWrench
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
TypeScript typings for ProjectZomboid Java API.
Contributions:1 review, 43 commits, 17 PRs in 3 months
apiprojectzomboidjava-apitypingsjava
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