About
Small by choice. Serious about the work.
Blue Gull Works is a small software firm building open-source products and helping organizations solve demanding systems problems.
The company
Blue Gull Works brings long experience in distributed systems, stream processing, data integration, cloud software, and production troubleshooting to focused client work and practical software products.
We favor simple designs, understandable systems, and direct communication. Our products are open source because trust is stronger when people can inspect, audit, and evaluate the software for themselves.
Principal
Steve Barber is the founder and principal of Blue Gull Works. His career includes senior software work at StreamBase, TIBCO, and Random Walk, along with consulting across complex, data-intensive environments. He combines architecture-level judgment with hands-on implementation and production problem solving.