Segev Finer
Senior Full Stack Developer at Swimm
Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolSegev Finer is a Senior Full Stack Developer with nine years of experience building robust software and R&D solutions, currently driving product development at Swimm from Ramat Gan, Israel. He combines hands-on engineering across backend, DevOps and tooling with a track record of shipping systems from scratch and improving developer experience. A reliable quick learner, Segev has deep cross-platform expertise—particularly in Windows console and shell integrations—and has contributed fixes and features to high-profile open-source projects including CPython, pytest, SymPy, and the Starship prompt. His open-source work spans language ecosystems (Python, Rust, Go) and focuses on pragmatic improvements like Zsh/PowerShell completions, .gitignore correctness, and editor extension diagnostics. Formerly an R&D specialist in the IDF and a senior engineer at Code Ocean, he brings disciplined, test-focused engineering and a penchant for upstreaming professional fixes to community projects. Not obvious at first glance: he often targets subtle platform edge-cases (Windows line endings, console I/O, shell behaviors) that materially improve cross-platform developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (55)
unit-testing10
debugging10
git10
computer-algebra10
visual-studio-code-extension10
parser10
multiplatform10
python10
pytest10
scripting10
testing10
terminal-emulator10
cross-platform10
c1110
terminal-application10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
pallets/click
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Python composable command line interface toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Segev primarily contributed to the `click` library, focusing on addressing compatibility issues and improving the user experience on Windows systems. Their work included refactoring code to handle binary streams, implementing workarounds for Windows console limitations in Python 2, and fixing memory leaks related to argument parsing. They also addressed bugs related to console detection and standard stream handling. Additionally, the user converted objects to string in style/secho function.
command-line-interfacepythoncliclickpallets
microsoft/vscode-go
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
An extension for VS Code which provides support for the Go language. We have moved to https://github.com/golang/vscode-go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 82 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Segev primarily contributed to the development of the VS Code Go extension, focusing on enhancing the code completion feature. They refactored and improved the completion item resolution process, incorporating documentation fetched from `go doc`. Additionally, the user worked on improving the debugging capabilities of the extension by addressing issues related to Delve integration and fixing potential problems with debugger stepping. They also updated the diagnostic system to split the diagnostic collections by tool type.
gogo-languagegolangvscode
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