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Samantha Steele

Senior Staff Engineer at Figma

Samantha Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, leading a significant multi-year project to horizontally shard the company's database stack, enhancing scalability and reliability while enabling new revenue opportunities. Previously, Samantha served as a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox, managing Edgestore, the company's petabyte-scale Metadata Storage layer, which delivers high availability and performance. Earlier experiences include internships at Dropbox, a research assistant role in the Multiscale Architecture and Systems Team, and participation as a Division I student athlete on the Stanford Varsity Sailing Team. Samantha earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical and Computational Sciences and a Coterminal Master's in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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Figma

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Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. Born on the Web, Figma helps teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page.