Ben Lachman
Angel Investor at Nice Mohawk Limited
Athens, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Lachman is a product-driven software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building consumer and energy-focused products, from iOS UI components to grid-scale battery sensing systems. He combines hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions like improving SZTextView’s attributed placeholder behavior—with strategic leadership as Principal of Nice Mohawk and as a climate and energy advisor and investor across startups and regional funds. Ben has led cross-disciplinary teams through product, fundraising, and go-to-market challenges, shipped the first easy-to-install wireless home energy tracker, and helped raise over $100M for cleantech ventures. Based in Athens, Ohio, he blends civic entrepreneurship—revitalizing a historic coworking armory—with a penchant for practical UX and sensor-driven energy solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Ohio University
Github Skills (4)
ios10
objective-c10
uitextview10
ui-design7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
glaszig/SZTextView
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
A drop-in UITextView replacement which gives you: a placeholder.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `sztextview` repository by implementing and refactoring features related to placeholder functionality in an iOS UITextView replacement. They added support for attributed placeholders, handled placeholder visibility based on text changes, and refactored the code for better readability. The user also addressed indentation inconsistencies and added support for matching lineFragmentPadding.
objective-cdrop-inswiftiosdrop
nicemohawk/MatchTracker
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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