Ben Potter
Software Engineer at Kimball Electronics
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Potter is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining mission-critical systems for medical and electronics manufacturing. He spent over nine years as the primary engineer for Kimball Electronics’ electronics traceability system at the Jasper facility and has since transitioned into automation engineering and electronics manufacturing. His background includes a decade at Cook Biotech, grounding him in regulated, quality-driven software development for medical devices. Ben combines firmware/electronics familiarity with software automation skills, making him adept at bridging hardware and software teams. Based in West Lafayette, he pairs a Purdue Computer Science foundation with practical manufacturing experience and a collaborative, improvement-focused approach. Outside work he’s cultivated a network of peers and practical skills that reflect a builder’s mindset and readiness for complex, production-grade challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Engineering/Industrial Management, 4.0, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Engineering/Industrial Management, 4.0 at University of Southern Indiana
Github Skills (7)
matrix9
cnc-machine9
3d-printer9
driver9
system7
game-development5
docker4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
desert-nomad-studios/atitd-language
Aug 2025 - Nov 2025
Language Translation files for A Tale in the Desert
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 comments in 3 months
bpuk/pf2e
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
A community contributed game system for Pathfinder Second Edition.
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 5 days
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