Benjamin Akar
Co-Founder at Tembo
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Akar is a startup founder and engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building product-focused web and front-end systems across Europe and the US. He co-founded Braum.ai and now leads Tembo after early roles at FINN.no, Sanity.io, Edge and product engineering stints in New York and Los Angeles, combining startup grit with enterprise-scale product experience. Comfortable shipping UI-first features, Benjamin has also contributed to open source projects like spacedrive, improving React/TypeScript interfaces and UX details. Hired into the classifieds industry at 19, he brings an unusual mix of early commercial exposure and bootstrapped founder discipline to growth and monetization problems. Based in Oslo, he pairs a Media & Communication background with a pragmatic engineering approach and a passion for helping businesses sell more while inspiring teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Media and Communication Communication and Media Studies, Media and Communication Communication and Media Studies at Elvebakken Alumni
Turkish, English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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229reached
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Github Skills (15)
css10
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
file-manager8
cross-platform7
open-source7
html6
phalcon6
php6
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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