Ben Manes

Ben Manes is the current CTO at Vector. Prior to joining Vector, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Addepar from January 2012 to December 2014. While at Addepar, they led the platform team and was responsible for numerous projects to improve performance, pay down technical debt, and implement core services. Some of their notable accomplishments include replacing a home-grown MySql abstraction that stores Java binary objects and performs class migrations with relational modeling, jOOQ, and Flyway migrations; transitioning the platform towards a lightweight service-oriented architecture for application development, restful endpoints for externalization, map/reduce for data processing workflows, and an event stream to decouple layered servers and services; and introducing Continuous Delivery to increase reliability by minimizing disruptive changes due to large releases, manual testing, and complex merging strategies.

Ben Manes received their B.S. in Computer Engineering and their B.S. in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Ben then went on to receive their M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ben Manes works with Darren Chan - VP, Design, Brian Belcher - COO & Co-founder. Ben Manes reports to Will Chu, CEO & Co-founder.