Summary
Ben Mesander is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience steering application and software development teams across startups and large enterprises from Longmont, Colorado. Currently Director of Application Engineering at Cardinal Peak, he has held senior technology roles including VP of Engineering and VP of Software Development at multimedia and telehealth firms, and led Comcast’s VIPER organization. His background blends hands-on electrical and software engineering (BS EE, University of Oklahoma) with strategic leadership, partnering early-stage product work with enterprise delivery. Known for moving between technical depth and executive oversight, he repeatedly scaled teams and products in embedded, media streaming, and cloud-connected systems. An understated constant in his career is longevity and continuity—many multi-year tenures and repeat leadership in Colorado’s engineering community—indicating a pragmatic, steady approach to solving complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of Oklahoma