Steve Barber

Vice President of StreamBase Application Engineering

Steve leverages his long experience as a StreamBase application architect and developer in order to gather, communicate, and advance the best known practices for designing, constructing, testing, and optimizing StreamBase applications. Steve’s passion is working with customers, partners, and the StreamBase field organization to make sure they get the information, mentoring, and methods they need to ensure success using StreamBase.

With over 20 years of experience in software engineering and design, Steve has established expertise in the capital markets and enterprise development. He has a solid understanding of market data infrastructures and automated trading systems built on a strong foundation of distributed enterprise messaging and transaction processing systems. He has long and specific experience with J2EE and CORBA-based application infrastructures, and his primary programming languages are Java and C. Throughout his career, he has maintained a broad professional presence through work on committees of the FIX Protocol Organization, the Object Management Group, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Prior to joining StreamBase, he served as a senior architect at Random Walk Computing, where he implemented and designed architecture frameworks for a wide range of firms on Wall Street, from trading start-ups to multi-national investment banks. Prior roles include principal consultant at Fusion Systems Group, and software developer positions at Rabbit Software Corporation and Knoware. Previously, he served as an attorney at Lance Rose & Associates focusing on high-tech intellectual property and information systems. Steve is the co-author of Programming with Java IDL, published by John Wiley & Son, and a contributing author for Portable C and Unix System Programming, published by Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series. He has also written for leading publications including JavaWorld and PC Magazine.

Steve holds a JD degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.