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title: Cameron
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  Software engineer and financial economist whose public work spans persistent
  AI systems, probabilistic programming, and technical education.
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  - title: Cameron's GitHub profile
    url: 'https://github.com/cpfiffer/cpfiffer'
  - title: Cameron's NBER profile
    url: 'https://www.nber.org/people/cpfiffer'
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Cameron Pfiffer is a software engineer and financial economist whose public work spans persistent AI systems, probabilistic programming, and technical education. He works at [Letta](/knowledge/letta) on infrastructure and developer-facing systems for stateful AI agents.

Cameron earned a PhD in finance from the University of Oregon and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His economics research has included Bayesian statistics, industrial organization, asset pricing, and market microstructure.

He has contributed to [Turing.jl](https://turinglang.org/), an open-source probabilistic programming system written in Julia. His other public work includes AI agent infrastructure, technical writing, [AT Protocol](/knowledge/atproto) projects, and tools for persistent machine memory.

Before his academic and software work, Cameron worked as an alpaca rancher and for Cirque du Soleil.