Lars Gerckens
Gründer at Unit Numberfive oHG
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Gerckens is a Hamburg-based macOS and iOS engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of product-focused development experience, best known as the creator of Tyme and Shortery. He has built and sustained successful productivity apps across Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch while founding Unit Numberfive and running Tyme since 2013. Lars’ background spans freelance and in-house roles at companies like XING and InnoGames, bringing both agency agility and product-scale discipline to his work. Comfortable with the full Apple ecosystem, he blends hands-on development with a founder’s instinct for UX-driven tools that boost professional productivity. An understated detail: his career began in Rich Internet application technologies (Flash/Flex/AIR), giving him deep experience in client-side UI engineering that informs his modern native app design.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Multimedia Design, Diploma in Multimedia Design at IIE Varsity CollegeDiploma in Computer Science (FH), Medieninformatik, Diploma in Computer Science (FH), Medieninformatik at Fachhochschule Wedel
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
url-routing10
deep-linking10
deeplink10
api9
ios9
objective-c9
sequel9
router9
intranet9
synchronization9
swift8
faunadb8
security8
mariadb-database8
cocoapods8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lrrrs/XNGAPIClient
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
api-clientobjective-capixing-apisdk
lrrrs/XNGMarkdownParser
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 days
nsattributedstringmarkdownparser
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