Marina Samuel
About Marina Samuel
Marina Samuel is a Staff Software Engineer at Wealthsimple with extensive experience at Mozilla and a background in computer science from the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.
Current Position at Wealthsimple
Marina Samuel is currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Wealthsimple. She has been with the company since 2022. Wealthsimple is a Canadian online investment management service, and her role involves working on software solutions to enhance the company's financial technology offerings. Her position requires her to leverage her vast experience in software engineering to contribute to the development of cutting-edge financial products.
Software Engineering Roles at Mozilla
Marina Samuel held multiple software engineering roles at Mozilla over a period of several years. She started as a Software Engineer Part-Time from 2015 to 2016, transitioned to a full-time Software Engineer from 2016 to 2017, and then moved up to Senior Software Engineer from 2017 to 2019. Ultimately, she served as a Staff Software Engineer from 2019 to 2022. These roles were based in the Toronto, Canada Area, where she was involved in various projects contributing to Mozilla's web technologies and services.
Early Career Internships
Before her full-time roles, Marina Samuel gained a diverse range of experiences through multiple internships. She interned as a Mobile Engineer at Yelp in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2012, and as a Sync & Services Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation in Mountain View, CA from 2011 to 2012. Prior to that, she interned at VMware as a vCloud Director Software Engineer in 2010, and as a Software Developer at International Business Machines (IBM) multiple times between 2009 and 2010.
Educational Background
Marina Samuel completed her Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, studying there from 2015 to 2017. Previously, she earned a Software Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where she studied from 2008 to 2013. Her educational background provided a strong foundation in both the theoretical and practical aspects of software engineering.