Christopher Best
Staff Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Best is a Staff Engineer and serial founder with 11+ years building secure, fault-tolerant platforms at scale, from startups to Amazon-scale products. He led mission-critical systems at Twitch—designing high-throughput real-time platforms, patented client-side integrity tokens, and company-wide bot mitigation that cut fraud and saved millions—then founded and bootstrapped Mobl AI, growing to 13k MAU while owning the AI core and serverless infra. He co-founded Chariot Claims, raised a $3.6M seed, and modernized a legacy stack to recover hundreds of millions for claimants while slashing costs 90%. Christopher pairs hands-on engineering (API, backend, infra, CI/CD, and security) with hiring and org design, instituting per-PR sandboxes and developer-first DevOps to speed onboarding. Based in New York, he combines product-minded entrepreneurship with deep distributed-systems expertise and a knack for turning performance and privacy challenges into scalable, auditable solutions. An early researcher and tutor with a UC Berkeley degree, he brings both technical rigor and operational grit to fast-moving teams.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
3.75 (Cum Laude), 3.75 (Cum Laude) at University of California, BerkeleyA.A. Japanese, A.A. Japanese at San Diego Mesa College
python, Japanese, golang
Github Skills (22)
backup9
productivity-tools8
linux8
application-settings8
slack-api7
slack7
api7
macos7
aws-codebuild6
golang6
ref6
dockerfile6
amazon6
livereload6
codebuild6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chr1sbest/blog
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
chr1sbest/dotfiles
Jun 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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