# Samantha Burak

> Software Engineer @ Figma

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samanthaburak

Graduated from Columbia Engineering with a degree in Computer Science, focusing on applications of CS, product engineering, and increasing gender equity in the field. Currently building AI features at Figma.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
- Building productive AI features for Figma

### Teaching Assistant @ Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Held office hours and graded assignments for the following courses: Clean Object-Oriented Design and Intro to Computing for Engineers and Applied Scientists

### Co-President @ Columbia Women in Computer Science
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Oversaw the management of entire WiCS organization (over 500 students)
- Helped to manage corporate partnerships and ran weekly Board meetings

### Board Member @ Columbia Women in Computer Science
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
- Organized events for the computer science community at Columbia and hosted 1:1 coffee chats with underclassmen

### Software Engineer Intern @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
- Implemented lazy-loading and server-side search for templates in the new templates sidebar in FigJam using TypeScript and Ruby
- Developed feature to create automatic thumbnails for FigJam templates using C++

### Intro to Python Class Instructor @ Girls Who Code at Columbia University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Taught Python programming to 10-15 students from local New York high schools through weekly Saturday classes

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Improved and refactored Flow information in the UI Quality Review and Scorecard tools, used to improve quality in the Facebook App

### Facebook University (FBU) Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Independently developed a full iOS mobile application using Objective-C and Xcode called Gifter
- App utilizes an Amazon API to search the web for personalized suggestions for gifts that the user can give to their friends and family and displays them in the form of gift baskets

### Enterprise IT Tools Team Intern @ Lockheed Martin
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Worked with GitLab vendor to coordinate, record, and publicize a series of 6 Lunch-and-Learn webinars
- Organized Docker training with Mirantis
- Reviewed and purged inactive Jira projects

### Computer Science Summer Institute @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Participated in 4-week intensive computer science program for high-achieving students
- Completed an introductory project-based Javascript processing curriculum
- Developed collaborative final project and presented to Google engineers

### Computer Science Instructor @ Urban League of Essex County
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Newark, New Jersey
- Taught 3 sessions of Python and HTML / CSS classes to kids from Newark, NJ on behalf of educational initiative designed to introduce disadvantaged youth to programming and other digital technologies

### Programming Intern @ The Pingry School
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Basking Ridge, New Jersey
- Developed a system using Google Apps Script to help teachers request and expedite approval of funding for professional development experiences


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Columbia Engineering

### High School Diploma
The Pingry School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samantha-burak-6342b21a1

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Last updated: 2026-04-05