# Ben Best

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benbest

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Sierra
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Co-founder, CTO @ Numida Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2024
Numida uses proprietary credit models and tech-enabled underwriting processes to provide unsecured working capital loans to African micro and small businesses. Instead of borrowing from informal lenders or family, business owners download the Numida app, apply in minutes, and receive capital within a day.

### Senior Software Engineer @ FiveStars
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
Backend async pipeline and messaging infrastructure.
Tablet products.

### Chief Strategy Officer @ Kulemela
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Tamale, Ghana
Responsible for managing current investments in Ghana and developing our pipeline for future growth.

### Market Development Strategist - Agriculture Value Chains Team @ Engineers Without Borders Canada
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Tamale, Ghana
Driving internal change and knowledge management practices within our team. Advisory role in hypothesis testing and strategic thinking for other EWB ventures in Ghana. Responsible for direction, design and development of internal knowledge management system at http://avc.azundo.com.com.

### Energy Analyst @ Enermodal Engineering Limited
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Kitchener, Ontario
Developed an internal web application using Django to track employee commuting habits and calculate carbon emissions.

Continued work on a platform to organize and analyze building energy use data to compare actual energy use to predicted energy use from an energy model.

### Green Building Intern @ Enermodal Engineering Limited
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Kitchener, Ontario
Worked on a small team building a new business division focused on creating expertise in the LEED - Exisitng Buildings, Operations and Maintenance standard.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benjaminbest

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Last updated: 2026-04-11