Bob Walker is a Technical Director at Octopus Deploy (www.octopus.com). As the leader of the customer solutions team at Octopus Deploy, we help solve complex customer problems. As a team, we help answer both technical and non-technical questions. Bob has been a fan of making it easier to deploy software since the early 2010s, when working for a company the only time to deploy to production was 2 AM Saturday. That has led him down the path of CI/CD, DevOps, TDD, and automating all the things. He was exposed to Redgate tooling and Octopus Deploy while working at Farm Credit Services of America and has been a fan ever since. In his current role, Bob gets to help customers, and work with a variety of technologies every day.
In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Software is ...