Samantha John
Ingeniero De Software at SJ Technologies
Puerto Rico, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha John is a bilingual software engineer and founder with 11+ years building products that amplify creativity and learning, most notably co-founding Hopscotch and leading its tech through 26M+ downloads and 38M+ user-created games. She blends hands-on engineering—shipping native iOS, WebGL/TypeScript game engines, and Rails backends—with product leadership, mentoring, and coaching, having worn CTO-to-CEO roles in a startup environment. Now consulting on engineering and product strategy while contributing at Shopify, she helps teams focus on the right problems to move projects forward. Her background in applied mathematics and humanities informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach to designing programming systems that scale with learners.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics + Minor in English and Comparative Literature, Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics + Minor in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (127)
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webgl10
quill10
rails10
amplitude10
scene-graph10
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pixijs10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
samanthamjohn/homepage
Mar 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:20 pushes in 6 years 2 months
gethopscotch/daisythedinosaur
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years
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