Samantha Coyle is a highly accomplished Software Engineer, public speaker, and author at Diagrid. Her engineering expertise specializes in Go, with a focus on empowering cloud-native developer tooling to effectively abstract application development challenges, and facilitate the creation of high-scale modern applications using Open Source technology. Committed to the Open Source community, Samantha actively contributes to multiple projects, notably fulfilling the most-requested feature in Dapr v1.12 and earning the first Testcontainers for Go Community Champion accolade for her project involvement and contributions. In addition to her technical leadership, Samantha boasts the Engineering Culture Capture hat in her current role. With a rich history in developing retail computer vision-based solutions, Samantha successfully stabilized Go microservices for industrial edge use through rigorous testing and diverse deployments, particularly for biopharma ML data-processing pipelines. Her contributions in this area were recognized with the Intel Division Recognition Award, acknowledging her team’s efforts in breaking barriers for novice AI developers in the biopharma domain - AI Connect for Scientific Data. As a 2023 Society of Women Engineers(SWE) Rising Technical Contributor award recipient, her expertise extends to being CKAD certified, reviewing Go textbooks, and publishing her very own technical textbook at the end of March 2024. Samantha's professional journey extends beyond technical accomplishments. She is deeply passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals, serving as an Industry Advisor for Texas State University’s SWE chapter. As a 2020 Computer-Science alumni, she played a pivotal role in creating their SWE Mentorship Program, and promoting SWE awareness on campus. Additionally, Samantha regularly provides guidance and support to students from her alma mater and other institutions. Passionate about fostering inclusivity and diversity in tech, Samantha actively engages with the broader Go community. She has been a key contributor to GopherCon, chairing the conference review board and the European GopherCon Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) board. Being apart of a family of Gophers, Samantha enjoys attending GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She also organizes the Women Who Go MeetUp at the conference and leads a local technical MeetUp group focused on diversity and inclusion in the Go community. Samantha is a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon, Grace Hopper Conference, Open Source Summit, Women Who Code, etc. Her contributions to engineering culture and technical leadership are underscored by her role as a speaker and advocate for diversity and inclusion in technical forums globally.
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