Baruch Odem is a full-stack software developer and open-source advocate with nine years of experience building and modernizing enterprise-grade systems. He spent six years at Checkmarx leading frontend work, porting a large SAST product to .NET Core and Linux, and improving developer CI visibility through an internal quality product. Baruch builds community as well as code—he created Checkmarx’s Discord server, an internal marketplace for tools, and infrastructure to help teams deploy and share apps. His open-source contributions include backend work on israeli-bank-scrapers, improving robust scraping and pending-transaction handling for Israeli banks. Now at With and contributing to Maakaf, he continues to blend pragmatic engineering with developer experience and knowledge sharing. Based in Israel with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Sapir College, he actively seeks new challenges and collaborations in open-source and distributed teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Sapir College
Provide scrapers for all major Israeli banks and credit card companies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:92 reviews, 72 commits, 80 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Baruch primarily focused on scraping data from Israeli banks and credit card companies. Their commits involved modifying and correcting scraper logic for specific banks like Leumi and Mizrahi, indicating an understanding of web scraping techniques. The user also made changes to support the new URL for Mizrahi bank and implemented the ability to fetch pending transactions. These changes suggest a focus on data extraction and processing from financial institutions.
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