About Samantha
Samantha was born and raised in New Braunfels, Texas. She graduated from New Braunfels High School in 2011, summa cum laude.
She attended college at The University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a B.S.A in Computer Science and Linguistics, cum laude, in 2014.
While at UT Austin, Samantha was a coordinator for the SXSW Accelerator Start-Up Pitch Competition. She was also the IT Director for the College of Natural Sciences.
After college, Samantha accepted a job offer from Salesforce and moved to San Francisco.
She worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer for the Apex team from 2015 - 2016 and as Lead Software Engineer for the LiveMessage team 2017 - 2019. She worked on the Apex runtime and compiler and launched the LiveMessage product for Salesforce, a social media inbox aggregator for enterprise corporations.
(Fun fact - some of her old team’s code is still used in Tidal to this day!)
From there, she worked as a Senior Engineer at Intercom in 2020, Shippo in 2020 - 2022, and Palolo in 2022.
From July 2022 to December 2024, Samantha lived as an Artist in Residence for San Francisco and Taipei. During that time, she lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward, San Leandro, Berkeley, Hong Kong, and Taipei, and also visited Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, and Australia.
Her art and modeling were featured on her Patreon, OnlyFans, and Fansly, which collectively had over 10,000 active users.
You can also view her art and modeling work in the menu at the top of the page.
In September 2024, Samantha founded Foundatixn Labs.
She currently serves as the CEO.
Outside of work, Samantha is a devoted yogi and vegan. She has been a practicing Buddhist since 2003. In her free time she likes to travel, bake, and make art.
