Ben Sadeh
Tech Lead at FINN.no – mulighetenes marked
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Sadeh is a tech lead based in Oslo with 7 years of software engineering experience and a unique background combining a Master in Law with a Bachelor in Computer Science. He leads cross-functional teams at FINN.no, drawing on a full-stack skill set (Java, React, GraphQL, GCP) and hands-on experience building integrations and monitoring for high-throughput services. Previously a legal advisor and caseworker, he brings unusually strong contract, risk and compliance instincts to technical decision-making and stakeholder negotiations. As an active open-source contributor, he built and refactored a feature-rich log file highlighter that added a TUI frontend, syntax highlighting and a cobra CLI—showing a penchant for developer tooling and maintainable code. Colleagues know him for bridging legal nuance and engineering pragmatism to deliver reliable, production-grade systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetMaster i rettsvitenskap, Master i rettsvitenskap at University of Bergen (UiB)Utveksling gjennom NTNU, Utveksling gjennom NTNU at National University of Singapore
Norwegian, English, French
Github Skills (6)
highlighter10
go10
syntax-highlighting10
cobra9
lessc8
colors7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bensadeh/tailspin
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
🌀 A log file highlighter
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 1 review, 148 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on implementing features and enhancing the functionality of the log file highlighter. They added BubbleTea for the frontend, added syntax highlighting for common keywords, dates, URLs and Java exceptions. The user also refactored the code to improve maintainability and introduced a cobra-based command-line interface. They also added the ability to tail the log file.
drop-inhighlightfollowtailhighlighter
bensadeh/circumflex
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
🌿 It's Hacker News in your terminal
Contributions:88 releases, 2024 commits, 104 PRs in 2 years 5 months
consolereaderterminalnewscommand-line
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