Cameron Stitt
Staff Engineer at OpenPixel Pty Ltd
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolCameron Stitt is a staff engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, microservices-driven systems from startup to enterprise scale, now based in Brisbane and working at IBM following HashiCorp’s acquisition. He’s led engineering teams and directed product delivery through roles as Director and Principal Engineer, combining hands-on backend development in Go and Python with DevOps and infrastructure work. Cameron has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like go-kit and the official HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise provider, adding metrics, authentication enhancements and policy management features. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s repeatedly delivered distributed systems, automated configuration via Consul, and integrated observability like CloudWatch metrics. He brings an operator’s mindset to design and testing, routinely improving vendor toolchains and documentation to make complex systems maintainable. Outside the org chart, he runs OpenPixel Pty Ltd, blending consultancy and product work that keeps him close to practical engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Co-op), Bachelor of Information Technology (Co-op) at CQUniversity
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
microservices-application10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
jwt10
microservices10
cloudwatch10
metric10
api-design9
authentication9
user-authentication9
cloud-infrastructure9
devops9
golang9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Official HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise provider, maintained by HashiCorp. Provision HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise - with Terraform!
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the HashiCorp Terraform provider for Terraform Enterprise. Their work focused on implementing features related to policy set parameters, modifying resource configurations, and improving testing. This includes adding the `manage_policy_overrides` permission. The user also updated the vendor directory and website sidebar for documentation.
tfe-providerproviderterraform-cloudprovisioncloud
go-kit/kit
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
A standard library for microservices.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 38 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Cameron contributed to the go-kit project by implementing features related to metrics and authentication. They added cloudwatch metrics integration including counters, gauges, and histograms, enabling the project to track key performance indicators. Furthermore, the user worked on the authentication components, specifically enhancing JWT middleware with claims, improving flexibility for token handling. Minor refactoring and comment fixes were also completed to maintain code quality.
golangstandard-librarymetallicamicroservicesmicroservice
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