Ben Vinegar
Co-founder of Modem; Sentry's second employee and later its VP of Engineering.
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- Ben Vinegar is a product developer and engineering leader.
- He is building Modem, an agentic auto-triage PM for software teams.
- He worked at Sentry for nearly ten years, from employee number two to VP of Engineering.
- He co-wrote Third-party JavaScript (Manning, 2013) with Anton Kovalyov.
Key facts
- Now
- Building Modem, his own startup (as of November 2026)1
- Sentry
- Nearly ten years: employee #2, then VP Engineering, VP Emerging Technology, and GM of the Syntax.fm podcast1
- Book
- Third-party JavaScript (Manning, 2013), with Anton Kovalyov; a chapter in Beautiful JavaScript (O'Reilly, 2015)1
- Open source
- Counterscale, analytics that run on Cloudflare; hunk, a terminal diff viewer for coding agents1
- Podcast
- Co-hosts State of Agentic Coding with Armin Ronacher2
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