Founder of FocusOn CRM

Software architect and engineer

I’m Stephen Barr, based in Northern Ireland and the founder of FocusOn CRM. I’m building software for organisations delivering employment, skills and careers programmes, helping their teams coordinate support and record the progress people make.

My focus is building and supporting FocusOn CRM for the long term. I lead its direction, design its architecture and write the software. That means thinking about the whole business: understanding what customers need, deciding what to build and creating a product they can rely on.

I bring more than ten years of experience designing software, leading engineering teams and running services in production. My work spans public services and industry, with responsibility for reliability, cost and the continued development of the systems I build.

Here, I share my work, experience and writing about what I’m building and learning along the way.