Ben Harding
Manufacturing Engineer at Avalign Technologies
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Harding is a manufacturing engineer with a decade of hands-on experience optimizing production for medical device implants and orthopedic products. Based in Portland, he currently supports Avalign Thortex, bringing deep expertise in machine shop process improvement, NPI optimization, and root-cause defect elimination. His background spans leading insourcing/outsourcing projects, drafting IQ/OQ/PQ protocols and PFMEAs, and driving CI initiatives that cut cost and cycle time while improving safety and quality. Earlier roles in mechanical design and prototyping informed a pragmatic approach to manufacturability, including a track record of reducing product weight and cost through design-for-manufacture. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex engineering requirements into validated, auditable production processes that scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.5, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.5 at University of California, Santa Barbara
English
Github Skills (10)
multiple-users8
fitbit7
hue6
node-api6
api5
nodejs4
zip3
intermediate2
http-server1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
slothbear-ht/slothbear-ht-api
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:19 PRs, 546 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
fit-cliques/fit_cliques
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:129 commits, 57 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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