Cameron Barre
Chief Technology Officer at obney.ai
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron 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 UniversityFrench Settlement High School
English
Github Skills (52)
cpp10
lisp10
llvm9
programming-language9
javascript9
typescript9
clojure9
functional-programming9
jit9
compiler8
openxr8
openvr8
oculus-quest8
typechecker8
visualization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cjbarre/cjbarre.github.io
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
ObneyAI/grain
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
Build Reasonable Applications with Clojure in the World of Natural Language Programming
Contributions:56 pushes, 18 branches, 1 issue in 11 months
clojureagentseventsourcing
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