# Samantha Carow

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samanthacarow

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Medallion
Jan 2024 – Present

### Co-founder, CTO @ DwellWell
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Built DwellWell from 0-1+, seeing 20% MoM growth from inception to shuttering
- Hired a team of 12
- Raised $4.5M

### Engineering Manager, Web Infra & Quality Infra Teams @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

### Engineering Manager, Web Infra Team @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- In addition to leading the Web Infra team, I founded the GAINS Program (Grow And Improve New Skills), a biannual program for junior & mid-level developers to take on projects outside their perceived scope of ability. The program aims to build confidence, enable technical advancement, and advise participants how to own a project from start to finish.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Core contributor to reddit redesign

### Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Played instrumental role in porting moderation features to new stack (desktop)
- Lead engineer on moderator tools for mobile web
- Built out site-wide email system (Mailgun integration)
- Executed >10 A/B experiments
- Built features for moderator mail, a separate web UI for reddit moderators

Python
React
Redux
Typescript

### Software Engineer @ Preact (acquired by Spotify)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Engineer #2, Employee #6

- Built new web app from scratch, using react, webpack & babel
- Liaised between design & backend team to determine data structures & API behavior
- Architected over 50% of the front-end app, focusing on reusable modules and reduced API calls
- Optimized Ruby workers by reducing the use of our ODM & refactoring old logic
- Contributed to intensive test suite for our Ruby on Rails app (integration, unit & functional tests)

Ruby on Rails
React (with reflux, webpack & babel)
Backbone.js
MongoDB

### Server @ Le Pain Quotidien
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
- Served coffee
- Studied ruby


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Marketing
Fordham University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samanthacarow

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Last updated: 2026-03-22