Paul Stovell
Founder and CEO. Paul started Octopus with his wife Sonia in 2012. In his spare time, he loves working on carpentry and DIY projects.
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At Octopus, we create happy deployments, and by extension, happy software teams.
Our vision is for all software teams to look forward to deployment time; to be excited about seeing their changes deployed and used by their customers. We want them to deploy more and more frequently, and to feel 100% confident it will just work.
Thousands of organizations deploy with Octopus
Our founders
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Paul and Sonia Stovell founded Octopus Deploy in 2012. In the years before, Paul had watched programmers at organizations of all sizes routinely remote into production machines to patch configuration files or write long and semi-complete documents because automating deployments was too time-consuming.
These practices were hampering organizations' ability to deliver and give their customers confidence. The concept of Octopus came about to solve those problems. Today, we still believe wholeheartedly in the importance of automated, frequent, repeatable deployments.
Octopus Deploy's mission
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We aim to be the category-defining solution for deployment and operations automation. Achieving this doesn't just mean solving valuable problems, but doing it at a scale that touches software teams everywhere.
Our values
We live by our values every day. We use them to help guide the future direction of our product and how we work with our teams, partners, and customers around the world.
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Listening to our customers
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Helping each other
over being efficient individual contributors.
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Doing the right thing by our customers and team
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Doing a small number of things at high quality
over trying to do everything or arbitrary deadlines.
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A bias for action
over risk-aversion, or the pursuit of the perfect plan.
What's it like to work at Octopus?
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Why do I love working at Octopus? Culture, autonomy, and life-work flexibility.
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I really do feel like I'm doing the best work of my life. While we still have room to improve, I think Octopus has a world-class collaborative and remote work culture. We work hard to connect people with their best contribution. We work hard to learn from our successes and our mistakes.
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The culture at Octopus attracts high-quality performers. The value for growth is evident in how Octopus constantly evolves. It is an exciting place to work with such an incredible team.
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The company has put great effort into making remote work life as easy and inclusive as possible. Everyone at Octopus has always been more than willing to help with any issue, even if it may not be part of their job duties.
Our leadership team
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Colin Bowern
SVP of Product. Colin is a passionate technical leader interested in product, delivery, and engineering of modern apps and services.
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Harsh Sabikhi
SVP of Worldwide Revenue. Harsh’s career has followed the evolution of software development (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps) ultimately leading to revenue management.
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Raziel Tabib
SVP of Codefresh. Raziel is passionate about accelerating the way software is disrupting our day-to-day life by simplifying the way we deploy applications.
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Joanna Wyganowska
VP of Marketing. Joanna has more than 20 years of experience running product marketing for software startups and software giants alike.
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Sammy Michaels
VP of Finance. Sammy leads our finance organization, taking great pride in ensuring the numbers are right and everyone understands what they mean.
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Cheryl Rehn
Director of Sales Operations. Cheryl leads our Sales Operations team. They are responsible for optimizing our sales processes and ensuring we have the right tools to best serve our customers.
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Dan Garfield
VP of Open Source. Dan is a technology leader and full-stack engineer specialized in evangelizing containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, and related technologies.
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Alex Rolley
VP of Customer Success. Alex leads our Application Support and Customer Success teams in the US, UK, and Australia.
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Michael Noonan
VP of Engineering. Michael leads our engineering organization, helping to build the world-class engineering capability we need as we continue to grow.
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Orli Remez
VP of People. Orli is passionate about creating workplaces where everyone can perform at their best.
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Ray Marshall
VP of Legal, Compliance and IT. In addition to being an experienced technology lawyer, Ray takes a keen interest in historical fencing and is our resident expert in all things swordsmanship.
Connect on LinkedInOur investors
Insight Partners is one of the largest and most successful venture funds in the world. It's also one of the most prolific investors in enterprise DevOps software companies.
Read more about what the Insight Partners investment means for Octopus
We're a remote-first company
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At Octopus, we trust you to choose the best place to work each day so that you're doing the best work of your life. It’s incredibly important to find a work-life balance that best suits you.
We still feel it’s important to occasionally get together face-to-face. Teams regularly meet up in our Brisbane HQ or pick a city in the US or Europe to connect with their teammates.
Our Slack channels are also a lot of fun. Find out how Albus got on at Crufts, or how our fitness fanatics went in their last race. If DIY or baking is your thing, you'll find channels for those too.
Proudly supporting
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CNCF
We are a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which supports projects for critical components of global technology infrastructure.
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CD Foundation
As a member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, we support the growth and evolution of Continuous Delivery models and best practices, along with CDF projects like Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Tekton.
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Linux Foundation
Through the Linux Foundation, we support projects like Linux, Node.js, and other mission-critical projects that form the backbone of the modern internet.
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