VICTOR TEMPRANO

Victor Temprano creates worlds of code, history, and imagination in Santa Cruz de Oleiros, Spain, and Vancouver, Canada. A self-taught programmer with a M.A. in Buddhist Studies, his interests touch on subjects across time, space, and cultures.

He is the founder of Native-Land.ca, the CEO of Mapster Technology Inc, and an independent digital humanist scholar.

He is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University's Writer's Studio where he specialized in fiction and non-fiction.

He is currently working on a wide range of writing projects and digital histories. He was raised in Kelowna, British Columbia.

CEO, Mapster Technology Inc.
Founder and CTO, Native Land Digital
Master of Arts, Religious Studies, McGill University 2013
Graduate, SFU Writer's Studio, 2025
Erasmus Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2025
Medieval Manuscripts Workshop, Italy, 2024
Digital Humanities Workshop, Cyprus, 2021

Selected Projects

Native-Land.ca

A complex, multi-generational, collaborative web app currently built with NextJS, Node, and Mapbox.

Mapster WP Maps

A richly featured Wordpress plugin making mapping possible for anyone. WP, JS, mapping libraries.

Learn Ditidaht

An Indigenous language learning plugin built-to-suit for Ditidaht Nation.

Project '44

A web app showing the history of WWII troop movement, letters, and more. React, Node.

Dencities

A citizen-focused web app for Austrian municipalities. ThreeJS, React, Node.

Erasmiana Digital

An AI-indexed digitization of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam. LLMs, NextJS, Node.

Groomer Tracking Systems (iOS, Android, mapping)

Ditidaht Kids (iOS, Android, Unity)

Murakamist (React, literature)

Tracemaps (Shopify, mapping, Node)

Birdiefire (Node, React, PDF generation)

UrbanForm (Mapbox, React)

Tarot Analytics (Mapbox, React)

Earth Defender's Toolkit (Wordpress, JS)

TurtleRP (Lua, WoW API)

Women of the Ancient World (WP, PHP, JS)

Selected Writings

Tolkien's Incredible Map of Middle-Earth

Youtube, 500k+ views, 2023

Native Land: Community Voices

Digital Mapping and Indigenous America, 2021

At The Bottom of the Valley

emerge Anthology, Simon Fraser University, 2025

Indigenous Wisdom: Songlines

Youtube, 20k+ views, 2024

Defining Engaged Buddhism

Defining Engaged Buddhism: Traditionists, Modernists, and Scholastic Power. Buddhist Studies Review, 2014

Mapster Youtube Channel

Talks & Lectures

Upcoming: Rethinking the Timeline

Rethinking the Timeline: Digital Chronologies and Medieval Time, International Medieval Congress, 2026

Upcoming: Mapping Worlds

Mapping Worlds: Tolkien’s Cartography and the Imagination of Place, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference, 2026

Artifical Humanism

Artificial Humanism: Erasmus in the Age of AI, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2025

Voices from Native Land

Keynote Speaker, Michigan State University Global Digital Humanities Symposium, 2018

Mapping Is Not Enough

Keynote Speaker, GIS Day, University of British Columbia, 2019

Interactive Maps with Mapbox

10k+ students, Youtube and Udemy, 2020

Intro to Web Development for GIS & Mapping

5k+ students, Youtube and Udemy, 2024

Mapster Teaches Mapping Youtube Channel

Links & Downloads

Curriculum Vitae

2025

Personal Github

Company Github

Upwork

5 stars, Top Rated, dozens of good reviews