Ben John
Managing Director at Liftric GmbH
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolBen John is a Managing Director and software leader with 11 years of experience building regulated medical-device software and mobile apps from concept to market. He founded and leads Liftric GmbH, an engineering partner focused on delivering mobile medical products with proven regulatory and technical delivery track records. His background spans principal and senior engineering roles at diagnostics and consumer tech companies, combining deep hands-on development with product and delivery ownership. Ben contributes to open-source tooling as a back-end developer (notably improving an Objective-C port of ZXing to fix barcode location and decoding issues), reflecting practical expertise in imaging and embedded software concerns. Trained in Business Informatics with additional study in Digital Health Transformation, he bridges clinical regulation, product strategy, and software engineering. Based in Mannheim, Germany, he brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to solving hard problems where reliability and compliance matter.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Health Transformation, Digital Health Transformation at IKF Institut für Kommunikation und FührungMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik / Business Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik / Business Informatics at University of Mannheim
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Github Skills (3)
objective-c10
testing10
algorithms8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zxingify/zxingify-objc
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
An Objective-C Port of ZXing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 306 commits, 149 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ben focused on fixing and improving the Objective-C port of ZXing by resolving barcode location issues and enhancing test cases. Contributions include the implementation of a new mirrorResultPoints method and improvements to existing code. They also made improvements to the code base by fixing bugs related to barcode positions and incorrect character readouts.
objective-czxing
benjohnde/play-pdf
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
A PDF module for the Play framework
Contributions:3 releases, 27 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 3 months
pdfplayframeworkplay-frameworkjavapdf-generation
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