# Samantha Barrera

> Software Engineer @ Cohere Health

Location: Irvine, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samanthabarrera

Software Engineer @ Cohere Health | Math & CS Alum @ UIUC | Active SHPE Member

Software engineer with 5 years of professional experience in software design, development, and testing. Experienced in backend and frontend software development of readable and reusable code to meet product requirements.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cohere Health
Jan 2023 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ Coda
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | United States
· Developed and enhanced Coda’s flagship product, an all-in-one document editor, impacting millions of documents and all customers.
· Leveraged TypeScript and React to implement innovative new features aimed at enhancing document organization, such as divider lines and callouts.
· Utilized Storybook for comprehensive front-end component testing, ensuring high-quality functionality and efficient bug detection.

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Allstate
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States
· Designed and implemented REST APIs for insurance claims services using Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and SQL.
· Developed interactive web applications using JavaScript and React, enabling Allstate agents to effectively manage and analyze claims data nationwide.
· Ensured software resiliency through the integration of JUnit, Jenkins, Mockito, and SonarQube for
comprehensive testing and quality assurance.
· Configured monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog, Iris, and Kibana to consistently monitor application health and metrics.

### Software Engineering Intern @ State Farm ®
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
· Developed web applications for State Farm’s newly launched philanthropy centers.
· Implemented website features using C# (.NET) within Visual Studio.

### Software Engineering Intern @ US Foods
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Rosemont, Illinois, United States
· Developed the primary internal sales application used by over 6000 US Foods salespeople country-wide.
· Used Kony (Temenos) Visualizer (akin to React Native) to develop iOS and Android mobile applications.
· Leveraged Apex and Salesforce’s Lightning Platform to facilitate full-stack development.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
· Containerized data processing applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible on EC2 instances.
· Delivered proof of concept containers using Kafka, Zookeeper, and Spark within the Big Data Warehouse for Cyber Machine Learning division.

### Student IT Consultant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
· Consulted with students and faculty to fix IT issues within the College of Engineering.
· Re-imaged school computers, configured WiFi, maintained printers, and rented out equipment.
· Recorded class lecture sessions for online viewing.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### Naperville North High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/slbarrera
- GitHub: https://github.com/slbarrera

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Last updated: 2026-03-29