Shawn Best
Senior Software Developer at MacLean Engineering
Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Best is a senior software developer and computer scientist with over 25 years of academic and industry experience and 12 years of focused professional development work. He blends multidisciplinary research, publications, and teaching from his Dalhousie graduate training with hands-on engineering roles at IBM, PerspecSys, NetEvolved, and MacLean Engineering. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, he has repeatedly taken projects from early client specification through design, implementation and deployment, often in R&D-oriented teams. He runs his own consultancy while contributing senior-level expertise at MacLean, demonstrating both entrepreneurial initiative and long-term corporate delivery. Known for preferring collaborative, creative, client-focused environments, he prioritizes building intuitive, reliable and robust software systems. An understated strength is his ability to translate academic rigor into practical solutions that advance product quality and client outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Dalhousie University
English, French
Github Skills (1)
java8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
entermedia-community/app-mediamoneymaker
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:60 pushes in 1 year 5 months
entermedia-community/entermedia-server
Oct 2013 - Nov 2015
EnterMedia Server
Contributions:96 commits, 39 pushes in 2 years
java
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