Samantha Cohen
Staff Software Engineer at Accurx
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Cohen is a seasoned software engineer and architectural leader, currently a Staff Software Engineer at Accurx in the UK. Over 11 years, she has driven system architecture, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring across roles at OVO, Cazoo, JUST EAT, and Devshell, delivering scalable, reliable software. She is a hands-on technologist with experience across C#, F#, Java, Python, Rust and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and she emphasizes maintainable code and strong engineering practices. Her open-source work includes maintaining NuKeeper for .NET package updates and contributing to .NET tooling, illustrating a practical passion for developer tooling and reliability. With a Physics master's from Royal Holloway and prior entrepreneurship experience, she brings quantitative rigor and a curiosity-driven approach to solving complex problems—from language design to hardware tinkering. Based in Stony Stratford, she leverages a broad tech portfolio to turn ambitious ideas into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, 2:1 at Royal Holloway, U. of London
Chinese, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (20)
nuget10
package-management10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
automation10
aspnet10
dotnet-core10
automations10
csharp10
dependency-injection10
unit-testing9
git9
brainfuck6
foreach6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NuKeeperDotNet/NuKeeper
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Automagically update nuget packages in .NET projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 88 PRs, 68 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Samantha primarily focused on maintaining and improving the NuGet package updating tool. Their contributions included refactoring code, improving error handling, and fixing bugs related to package reading and version updates. They also integrated SimpleInjector for dependency injection and updated dependencies, specifically NuGet.Protocol.Core.v3, and added tests to improve code quality and reliability. The work spans multiple areas of the project's functionality to ensure smooth package management.
dotnetnuget-packagesupdateautomationcsharp
cohen990/Euromoney.RecruitmentTest
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 4 months
recruitment-testrecruitmentplc
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