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@Steve Fenton
Steve Fenton
Swabbie at Octopus
About
Steve Fenton is an Octonaut at Octopus Deploy. He’s a Software Punk, author, programming-architect, pragmatist/abstractionist, and generalizing-generalist.
Top Skills
Continuous Delivery
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DevOps
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Software Engineering
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Agile
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Lean
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Team Topologies
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Culture
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Platform Engineering
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Research
Licenses & Certifications
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ArgoCon Europe 2026 Speaker
The Linux Foundation
Issued Mar 2026Credential ID dd777381-365d-471e-b147-113a97c914d9
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Octopus Fundamentals
Octopus
Issued Oct 2025Credential ID d363e4ee-a27d-42cb-a287-3acb3dd86234
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Microsoft MVP
Microsoft
Issued Aug 2025Credential ID b653e622-aa1d-478c-be4b-ac397368f559
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Linux Foundation Research: 2025 Research Contributor
Linux Foundation
Issued Aug 2025Credential ID 202e00b9-b971-48c7-99bf-33f2e93b4524
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GitOps at Scale
Codefresh
Issued Oct 2024Credential ID 185312e7-74ea-47ed-8b15-f7ec6ba47709
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Program Committee Member - Continuous Delivery Mini Summit 2024
Linux Foundation
Issued Jul 2024Credential ID 4ac73510-fa45-46c4-a9c0-3030288d8d26
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Program Committee Member - cdCon 2024
Linux Foundation
Issued Apr 2024Credential ID 102aba63-1090-4ca0-a140-a389fb1b8401
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Program Committee Member: Open Source Summit North America 2024
Linux Foundation
Issued Feb 2024Credential ID 43997d75-f84e-4555-ac82-bfa74e297de7
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GitOps Fundamentals
Codefresh
Issued Jan 2024Credential ID cdcf4d58-f014-41b4-aba7-db6fb24ba28e
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Language & Tools
C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, PHP, .NET, NodeJS, Astro, Octopus Deploy, Azure, AWS.
Currently Exploring
Software delivery culture and methods through original and secondary research.
Achievements
DORA Community Guide, Microsoft MVP
Fun Fact
Former touring/session drummer. Front man and guitarist for Sohnee.
Random Dev Quote
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Latest Video
Contributions
Articles
- Automatically update GitHub Action versionsJun 29, 2026
- Harness engineering: The power of AI, guided by human intelligenceJun 26, 2026
- Remaining deployable at all timesJun 22, 2026
- How AI Makes You 56% Faster and 19% SlowerJun 15, 2026
- Continuous Delivery should be your top priorityJun 11, 2026
Comments
- @[Vishwajeet Kondi] It's early days, so we'll see how it works out. I'...Jun 29, 2026
- @[buildbasekit] :D :D The Agent Whisperer is for real going to get use...Jun 29, 2026
- You can't see me, but I gave this a standing ovation. Even when you st...Jun 25, 2026
- @[Josaphatstar] the film "Field Of Dreams" has a lot to answer for :) ...Jun 25, 2026
- I think this was always true. I've know plenty of developers who creat...Jun 25, 2026
Videos
Launches
- Millrace: Git-backed KanbanJun 10, 2026
- Pipeline: Underwater MazeApr 10, 2026
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