Stephen Best
Principal Engineer Architect at Zeroth
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Best is a Principal Engineer and Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience transforming legacy systems and designing complex distributed, real-time platforms across domains including rail control, banking, healthcare, and customer service. He combines deep technical authority with cross-organizational influence, having led groups of ~50 engineers, shaped company-wide architecture standards, and represented engineering teams in M&A and strategic evaluations. Known for pragmatic, incremental modernization, he has driven large-scale migrations without big-bang releases while coaching teams in TDD and DevOps. Now based in Copenhagen, he focuses on AI, cryptography, data security and cloud infrastructure, blending system design, hands-on coding and mentorship to solve high-value problems. A physics graduate with a talent for reverse-engineering hard legacy code, he brings both broad systems perspective and a track record of hiring and process changes that scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Leeds
Github Skills (110)
alien10
client-library10
container10
admin10
structured-concurrency10
thread10
publisher10
futures10
xinput9
mapper9
google-cloud-platform9
ruby9
google-cloud9
concurrency9
asdf9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bestie/terrestrial
Nov 2014 - Apr 2021
A data mapper ORM for Ruby. Persists POROs, enables DDD and fast tests. Makes your objects less alien.
Contributions:375 commits, 8 PRs, 133 pushes in 6 years 6 months
dddporosdata-mapperalienruby
bestie/objective-ruby-style-guide
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 2 months
railsstyle-guideruby
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