Samara Strauss
Product Manager at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamara Strauss is a product leader with 15+ years blending civic tech, UX, and client-facing SaaS experience, currently leading Login & Identity for VA.gov—a platform handling 3.5M monthly users and 13M authentications. She specializes in steering cross-organizational initiatives through complex stakeholder landscapes, turning human-centered research into strategic, scalable product direction. Her background as a UX designer and time at the United States Digital Service give her a rare combination of user empathy and systems-thinking for large government services. Known for building consensus on hard problems, she excels at making authentication and authenticated experiences both secure and usable at scale. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, she brings a psychology degree and a curiosity for translating behavioral insights into measurable product outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology at Trinity College
Github Skills (17)
frontend10
ruby7
rails7
api7
rad6
user-feedback6
oms5
sling5
product-management4
editor3
cockpit3
documentation3
cms2
notification-api2
mobile2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
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Contributions:1 review, 4327 commits, 4468 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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Samara-Strauss/Personal
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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