Delwin Best
Engineering Leader, Stripe Connect
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDelwin Best is an engineering leader with 11+ years of global experience building and scaling complex, customer-facing systems across AWS, Amazon Marketplace, Alexa, and now Stripe Connect. He combines deep technical craft—from embedded firmware to distributed cloud services—with a proven ability to define product and organizational strategy that delivers measurable business outcomes. Delwin has repeatedly launched high-impact programs (e.g., Amazon Points, Renewed JP, Carrier integrations) and modernized services by aligning engineering roadmaps with partner and commercial goals. A people-first manager, he has built and led cross-functional teams across the US, APAC, Japan, Africa, and China, hiring, mentoring, and conducting hiring bar-raiser interviews at scale. He’s known for turning research and IP into shipped products quickly (notably delivering an external MVP at Laava in a single quarter) while improving team efficiency by roughly 60%. Based in Seattle, he blends international operational experience with a curiosity for cutting-edge tech and practical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering Electronic Engineering & Embedded System Design, Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering Electronic Engineering & Embedded System Design at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyUniversity of South Africa
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (55)
platformio10
vendor10
atmel10
firmware10
esp826610
commercial10
3d-printing10
avr10
workbench10
esp3210
arduino10
minecraft9
amplify8
uart8
java7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
delwinbest/flutter_complete_guide
Feb 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:193 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
delwinbest/homeassistant_mitsubishi_hvac
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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