Sam Blinde is an engineering manager who joined Nearform in April of 2022. Before Nearform, Sam worked at Wilmington University, Realtime Media, and most recently, Accolade Inc. Her biggest career accomplishments include traveling to Washington, DC, where she trained a WordPress client, and at her last role, delivered a significant internal application within healthcare to production and supporting it as a release manager and on-call engineer. At Nearform, Sam uses her specialties in accessibility, user experience, and her educational background in design and production to lead a team of engineers and contribute to the repo using React and JavaScript. Sam is passionate about mentoring junior and student engineers, particularly those from under-represented communities, and advocates for people with disabilities and diversity and inclusion in the technical space. Outside of work, Sam is a mom of a three-year-old, enjoys painting, and is also a gamer. She particularly enjoys horror games and has led a larger guild in the game, World of Warcraft, since 2016. If you picked up on some spooky vibes, it's probably because Sam was born on Halloween. 👻