Benjamin Akar
Co-Founder at Tembo
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Akar is a product-focused engineer and founding product leader based in Oslo with nine years of experience building front-end infrastructure and developer-friendly products. Hired at 19 by the world's second-largest classifieds company, he went on to lead open-source component work and introduce continuous release pipelines and micro-frontend practices at FINN.no. He co-founded Braum.ai and now bootsstraps Tembo, bringing a product-first lens to developer tooling and Postgres-for-any-workload ambitions. His work spans shipping developer DX at Sanity (visual editing and starter templates) and contributing front-end fixes and UX features to the open-source Spacedrive project using React and TypeScript. Known for bridging product and engineering, he runs cross-team workshops and turns complex requirements into usable, maintainable UI systems. He also took a deliberate sabbatical to recalibrate his priorities and return to founder life with renewed focus.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
5.8/6, 5.8/6 at Elvebakken Alumni
Turkish, English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ui-d10
typescript310
css10
typescript10
typescript210
ui-design10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
frontend-development10
react10
file-manager8
open-source7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
spacedriveapp/spacedrive
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 35 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on front-end development tasks, as evidenced by commits related to UI component updates and bug fixes. They addressed issues with disappearing icons, componentized folder icons, and implemented a waitlist feature for the landing page. The contributions involved modifications to React components using TypeScript and included changes to CSS styling.
virtual-distributed-filesystemrustlinuxfile-explorerdistributed-systems
benja/web-minigames
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:85 commits in 16 days
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