# Samantha Bobra

> Software Engineer at Substack | Android + Kotlin | Previously Discord, Cornell University

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samanthabobra

Android software engineer and mobile engineering manager working on consumer social apps.

Passionate about building high-quality mobile applications and empowering other engineers to succeed.

Outside of work, I enjoy mentoring and teaching computer science students and new software engineers, public speaking, hosting events for the tech community, classic cinema, crafting, and gaming.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (Android) @ Substack
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Building a subscription network for independent writers and creators

Creator Team - working on core mobile features such as Notes, chat, direct messaging, post creation, and video

### Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Messaging Squad - building and maintaining the core text chat experience for Discord. Worked on features for the native Android app (Kotlin), as well as for the React Native mobile apps.

Launched "Threads": https://discord.com/blog/connect-the-conversation-with-threads-on-discord
Launched "Text Chat in Voice Channels" feature: https://discord.com/blog/text-in-voice-chat-channel-announcement-tiv

### Software Engineering Manager @ VSCO®
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Oakland, California
Leading the Engagement mobile engineering team at VSCO. Helping empower a team of iOS and Android to collaborate and build community features in the VSCO app, including work around profiles, messaging, reposting, favoriting, and discovery. Most recently, worked on bringing Video to the VSCO app.

### Software Engineer (Community) @ VSCO®
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, CA
Built out VSCO's social features as a member of the Community team. Worked on features for the Android app, as well as server-side features written in Go.

### Software Engineer (Android) @ VSCO®
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Oakland, CA
Developed and maintained the VSCO mobile photography app on Android. Early employee, contributed extensively to most areas of the app.

### Engineering Team Lead (Collections) @ VSCO®
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Oakland, CA
Managed the development of the cross-platform Collections feature across iOS, Android, and web

### iOS/Android Mobile Developer @ Splat
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Ithaca, NY
Developed mobile gaming applications (primarily Android, occasionally iOS) for a smartphone-powered laser tag system


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
Cornell University

### High School
Stuart Country Day School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30