Cameron Gorrie

I help set technical direction across the product experiences organization for Canada's leading corporate spend-management platform.

Highlights: Designed and implemented a backend framework for modular decomposition of a django/celery app. Infrastructure lead for our Float Intelligence product, spearheading our transition to Kubernetes. Implemented celery autoscaling while reducing costs by optimizing worker memory usage.

I raise the bar on developer experience and participate in mentor/mentee relationships across various degrees of senority. My focus is on levelling up those around me, and levelling up the conservations we have so we can come out with simplest design that both works and is maintainable.

I led the vision and implementation for the local development experience of building Native Apps inside the Snowflake ecosystem. We built this experience inside Snowflake CLI (Python) as well as contributing improvements to the underlying framework (Java / FoundationDB). This work reduced time-to-first-app deployment from hours to minutes.

This involved writing functional and design specifications and moving them through review, presenting to architects / CTO, interviewing and onboarding new team members, building internal workshops, creating public-facing tutorials, fine-tuning LLMs, and building applications for our BUILD and Summit conferences.

As part of the Product & Engineering leadership team, I mentored ICs, coached team and technology leads, designed software architecture, and led group sessions such as premortems and design jams. Architected an ABAC permission sytem (dynamodb) that gave our institutional partners the role flexibility they'd been asking for, and directed the Virtual classroom project (vendor evaluation through to enabling 300+ classes a week).

I later moved to a Staff-level IC role focused on frontend performance and developer experience: optimizing the shared critical bootstrap path to improve core web vitals by ~17% (P75), cutting bundle size across all apps by ~30%, hardening test harnesses for prod parity, and leading initiative teams to make our React state easier to reason about.

In Lighthouse's 10-week web development immersive (JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL), I helped students get "unstuck," instilled best practices, and prepared example code and lectures to complement the course material.

We set out to take on Ticketmaster and StubHub with a consumer-centric, demand-side approach to ticketing. We iterated for a year and a half — including the Techstars Music 2017 accelerator in Los Angeles — before pivoting to a B2B event-concierge approach. We were acquired by Triller.