Benn Mapes
Chief Technology Officer at Elevated Signals
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBenn Mapes is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 13 years of software experience, currently steering Elevated Signals’ product and engineering strategy to deliver resilient MES solutions for regulated manufacturing. He combines a background in cognitive systems, integrated intelligence, and design from UBC with hands-on engineering roots—co-founding a startup and shipping software at Adobe—to bridge human-centered design and scalable backend systems. Under his leadership Elevated Signals has integrated batch production, quality compliance, and environmental telemetry into a single user-friendly platform used by leading licensed operators. Benn is also an active open-source contributor with practical experience fixing and extending platform-specific functionality in prominent Apache Cordova projects, reflecting deep mobile and cross-platform expertise. He’s known for solving messy, domain-specific problems by blending AI-informed design thinking with pragmatic engineering and team-building. Based in Vancouver, he enjoys turning regulatory complexity into elegant, auditable software that improves operational outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Valley Waldorf SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Systems Integrated Intelligence and Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Systems Integrated Intelligence and Design at The University of British ColumbiaWoodstock Union High School
Github Skills (15)
mobile10
objective-c10
javascript10
windows-phone10
mobile-development10
csharp10
android10
cordova10
xml-parsing10
dotnet-core10
java9
javas9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
nodejs5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cordova-cli
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Apache Cordova CLI
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Benn contributed to the Apache Cordova CLI, focusing on Windows Phone platform support. The commits involved adding and modifying platform-specific files, including those for WP7 and WP8. The user also updated core scripts and fixed issues related to XML parsing, ensuring proper functionality and references within the Windows Phone project structure.
objective-ccordovaapache-cordovajavascriptapache
apache/cordova-android
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
Apache Cordova Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:14 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Benn primarily focused on updating and fixing the Android-specific codebase of the Cordova project. Their contributions involved removing deprecated methods and fixing broken functions within the framework. They also addressed a geolocation database error and updated the build scripts. The user modified Java and JavaScript code related to core Android functionality.
cordova-platformcordovaapache-cordovajavascriptandroid
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