Benjamin Sago
Produce Clerk at Fred Meyer
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBenjamin Sago is a detail-oriented professional with 12 years of experience blending customer-facing retail work and technical contributions from Hillsboro, Oregon. While building a long-standing career as a Produce Clerk at Fred Meyer, he also contributed as a back-end developer to an open-source command-line DNS client, improving maintainability, Clippy compliance, and parsing for additional DNS record types. His academic background includes an M.A. and B.A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Arizona and Oregon State University, reflecting strong communication and analytical skills. Benjamin has experience in mentoring and instruction from a Graduate Assistant role and a disciplined approach developed as a soccer official. He brings a pragmatic, quality-focused mindset that spans people-facing roles and careful code maintenance, making him well-suited to cross-functional positions where reliability and clear communication matter. An understated strength is his ability to juggle hands-on retail responsibilities with thoughtful technical improvements in open-source tooling.
12 years of coding experience
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), French Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), French Language and Literature at Oregon State University
English, French, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,495reputation
100kreached
8answers
12questions
Github Skills (14)
rust10
refactoring10
dns10
software-quality10
refactor10
unit-testing9
collections6
borrow-checker6
dictionary6
common-lisp6
android6
timestamp6
intellij-idea6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ogham/dog
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
A command-line DNS client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 183 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improving the codebase's maintainability and reliability. They refactored the code by removing references to Copy types and modifying the way Clippy is invoked to enhance code quality. They also addressed several Clippy warnings, and corrected record-length validations across various record types. Furthermore, the user implemented the parsing of additional record types.
rustcommand-linedns-clientdns
ogham/rust-ansi-term
Jul 2014 - Sep 2019
Rust library for ANSI terminal colours and styles (bold, underline)
Contributions:138 commits, 31 PRs, 83 pushes in 5 years 2 months
rust-libraryruststylesboldterminal
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.