Samara Strauss
Product Lead VA.gov Login & Identity at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamara Strauss is a product leader with 15+ years blending civic tech, UX, and client-facing SaaS experience, currently leading Login & Identity for VA.gov—a platform handling 3.5M monthly users and 13M authentications. She specializes in steering cross-organizational initiatives through complex stakeholder landscapes, turning human-centered research into strategic, scalable product direction. Her background as a UX designer and time at the United States Digital Service give her a rare combination of user empathy and systems-thinking for large government services. Known for building consensus on hard problems, she excels at making authentication and authenticated experiences both secure and usable at scale. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, she brings a psychology degree and a curiosity for translating behavioral insights into measurable product outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology at Trinity College-Hartford
Github Skills (17)
frontend10
api6
rails6
ruby6
rad5
oms5
user-feedback5
mobile-application4
sling4
cockpit4
product-management3
mobile3
cms2
documentation2
editor1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
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Contributions:1 review, 4327 commits, 4489 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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Samara-Strauss/Personal
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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