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.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Leeds
Github Skills (89)
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ruby9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bestie/dotfiles
Nov 2013 - Dec 2022
LOL if you don't version your dotfile
Contributions:246 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 9 years 2 months
karabinerasdfdotfilesdotfilezsh
bestie/objective-ruby-style-guide
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 2 months
railsstyle-guideruby
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