Colin Bowern
Chief Product Officer at Octopus Deploy
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolColin Bowern is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 14+ years building high-performance, cross-cultural R&D organizations and modern continuous delivery platforms. As Chief Product Officer at Octopus Deploy he shapes product strategy and scaling practices for a distributed org shipping cloud-native CD capabilities to platform engineers. He combines pragmatic agile transformation, value-stream acceleration, and hands-on coaching to move teams from steady delivery to enterprise-scale outcomes while preserving customer empathy. Colin has repeatedly led major tech shifts, compliance-driven cloud migrations, and acquisition integrations, and he’s known for surfacing transparent progress to invite inspection and trust. Outside work he’s active in the NZ product community and volunteers developing youth ocean safety skills—evidence of his focus on long-term community impact as well as product impact.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Technology, MSc Information Technology at University of LiverpoolBA Economics, BA Economics at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityUniversity of Waterloo
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Github Skills (79)
decks10
windows9
octopus9
vagrant8
packer8
markdown8
python8
gulpfile8
octopus-deploy8
bash7
dotnet7
linux7
shell7
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Github contributions (5)
colinbowern/Presentations
Jun 2012 - Sep 2013
Code and Decks
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 3 months
deckspython
colinbowern/Spikes
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 10 months
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