Andrew Best
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Octopus Deploy
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Best is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and advising on enterprise-grade software, currently shaping delivery and architecture at Octopus Deploy. He blends hands-on engineering, devops and agile leadership with a strong consulting background from Readify, helping organisations translate executive strategy into reliable, scalable products. Founder and organiser of DDD Adelaide, he also brings practical event and community-building experience that informs his focus on team development and diversity. Known for driving incremental, sustainable change, he works across the stack and the org chart—from developer workflows to executive decision-making—to ship high-impact outcomes. Based in Adelaide, he pairs a Bachelor of IT in Software Engineering with a proven track record across multiple industry verticals.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of I.T Software Engineering, Bachelor of I.T Software Engineering at University of South Australia
Github Skills (90)
nuget10
testing10
spotify10
markdown10
quality-assurance10
conventions10
nodejs10
zeplin10
documentation10
asciidoctor10
docker10
octopus10
release-management10
octopus-deploy10
devops10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dddadelaide/dddadelaide-website
Jul 2019 - Nov 2024
The website for the DDD Adelaide conference.
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 141 pushes in 5 years 5 months
ddd
andrewabest/ModernWPF
Dec 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
wpf-applicationxamldotnetcsharpwpf
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