Summary
Samara Dionne is a pragmatic full‑stack software engineer with 11 years’ experience building and maintaining web platforms, currently contributing at Cash App from Melbourne. She has led development teams and architected modular, headless CMS solutions for agencies, combining PHP/WordPress, Laravel, Vue and React to deliver scalable client projects for brands like Coles and The Good Guys. Her background spans public sector civic tech—designing secure integrations with government offender systems—and commercial products, showing strength in both user‑centred design and systems integration. Samara routinely bridges design and engineering, pairing with creatives to turn mockups into maintainable codebases and custom WordPress plugins. She brings hands‑on operational experience with CI/CD, AWS and automated testing, and a habit of improving legacy systems while introducing modern front‑end patterns. Notably, she combines a formal arts/design education with a BCompSci, which informs her pragmatic yet design‑aware engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AEC/ACS, Web Technology, AEC/ACS, Web Technology at CEGEP - John Abbott College
Bachelor's degree, Computer Applications, Computation Arts (BCompSci), Bachelor's degree, Computer Applications, Computation Arts (BCompSci) at Concordia University
DEC/DCS, Illustration & Design, DEC/DCS, Illustration & Design at Dawson College
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology (BCompSci), Bachelor's degree, Information Technology (BCompSci) at Swinburne University of Technology
French, English