Summary
Cameron Barre is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building event-driven systems and tooling for a post-AI world, primarily using the Clojure stack. He blends hands-on functional programming expertise with product-focused architecture—favoring Event Sourcing, CQRS, Kafka Streams, and Event Modeling to design auditable, scalable systems. Cameron has repeatedly led technical strategy from founding-stage startups to enterprise data platforms, including roles as CTO, co‑founder, and principal engineer where he built teams and hired successors. Based in Portland, Oregon, he consults and acts as a CTO for hire, often choosing pragmatic approaches (including no-code for fast MVPs) to minimize technical debt while accelerating time to market. He’s as comfortable in JVM-based ecosystems and stream processing as he is translating business strategy into developer practices that scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology at Southeastern Louisiana University
French Settlement High School
English