Andrew Best
Chief Technology Officer at DDD Adelaide
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
12 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 (71)
testing10
spotify10
markdown10
productivity-tools10
quality-assurance10
typescript10
conventions10
nodejs10
zeplin10
documentation10
asciidoctor10
octopus10
codebase10
release-management10
octopus-deploy10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
andrewabest/hmac
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
A signature creator and validator, along with some useful extensions. Inspired by the AWS Signature V4 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sigv4_signing.html
Contributions:7 releases, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
aws-signature
andrewabest/ModernWPF
Dec 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
wpf-applicationxamldotnetcsharpwpf
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