Cris Barbero
Director Of Software Engineering at Bretton AI
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolCris Barbero is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building scalable, compliant platforms for FinTech and InsureTech companies. He specializes in transforming infrastructure, security posture, and developer experience for growth-stage organizations, having led platform, AppSec, internal tooling, and data teams. At Stride he migrated 25+ services to ECS Fargate, automated CI/CD to enable daily deployments, built 25+ Terraform modules, and architected a FinTech security zone that supported multiple NIST 800-53 audits. He excels at hands-on technical leadership—growing teams from solo ownership to 15 engineers while maintaining high retention and mentoring engineers through complex, regulated projects. Known for pragmatic modernization, he moved data stacks from batch Redshift workflows to near-real-time Snowflake pipelines and cut operational toil with automation that reduced lengthy data loads to minutes. Based in Salt Lake City, Cris blends deep cloud and security expertise with a knack for turning compliance requirements into scalable, developer-friendly systems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bse Computer science, Bse Computer science at Tufts University
Spanish
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Github Skills (91)
messaging10
command-line-interface10
aws-serverless10
serverless10
serverless-application-model10
azure-cosmos-db10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
cli10
graph10
aws-lambda10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
tflint10
bus10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cfbarbero/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
cfbarbero/ansible-bow
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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