Summary
Barrie Selack is a senior technical consultant and seasoned Liferay architect with 15+ years building and migrating enterprise web platforms, from custom e-commerce systems to high-availability portal solutions. He pioneered Liferay adoption at Rite Aid, led technical marketing efforts at Liferay, and has deep hands-on experience across themes, modules, portlets and SSO integrations including SAML and CAS. Barrie blends consulting, training and developer-facing content creation—authoring curricula and workshops delivered at major events like JavaOne, OSCON and multiple Liferay Symposiums. He has a track record of pragmatic architecture work (DXP standards, clustering, DevOps automation) and has implemented creative integrations such as per-virtual-instance SAML and IMAP high-availability solutions. An ongoing contributor to the liferay-plugins repo, his fixes and refactors span mail portlets, upload APIs and cross-cutting bug resolution. Based in Greater Harrisburg, he brings a rare mix of long-term platform mastery, client-facing consulting, and curriculum development.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington