Gareth Bestor
Principal Software Engineer at KoboToolbox
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Bestor is a Principal Software Engineer based in New Zealand with over 15 years of experience building cloud, virtualization and enterprise systems management products. He blends deep research pedigree—a Ph.D. in AI and DARPA/NSF‑funded work—with practical leadership at IBM, where he led standards-driven open-source projects such as Xen-CIM and contributed key KVM features to libvirt. Gareth has repeatedly bridged academia, government labs and industry to productize HPC and cloud technologies, then translated that into architecture and delivery roles across startups and NGOs. He teaches and mentors as comfortably as he codes, having lectured in functional programming and robotics while guiding cross-organizational engineering teams. Now back “down under,” he continues shipping production software and advising on ICT prototypes and interfaces, often favoring standards-based, cross-platform solutions. A less obvious strength is his track record of turning collaborative standards work into shipping commercial products that shape how virtualization is managed in practice.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAB.Sc. with First Class Honours, Computer Science, B.Sc. with First Class Honours, Computer Science at Massey University, New Zealand
Github Skills (71)
dynamic-forms10
kpi10
xlform10
data-export10
points10
java10
uitableview10
android-app10
android10
kotlin10
odk10
data-collection10
validations10
forms10
mhealth10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tiritea/collect
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 4 tags in 2 days
tiritea/UITableViewCellTest
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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