Fred Showell
Head Of Product at DISCO
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Showell is a product leader with 13 years’ experience building and scaling B2B products, currently serving as Head of Product in Hobart, Tasmania. He combines product strategy, design thinking, and hands-on UX leadership to drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction across enterprise and developer-focused products. At Buildkite he rose from Senior Product Designer to VP of Product, contributing to both product direction and developer documentation for a well-regarded CI/CD platform. He has a track record of leading cross-functional teams, mentoring designers, and launching products that expanded market share—once driving a 40% revenue lift at LiveTiles. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he also contributes practical developer-facing docs, showing a rare blend of product design sensibility and operational clarity. Fred studied Time-based Multimedia at the University of Tasmania and brings a creative, systems-oriented perspective to product problems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Time-based Multimedia, Bachelor's Degree, Time-based Multimedia at University of Tasmania
Finnish
Github Skills (5)
markdown10
api-documentation10
markdown-it10
documentation10
yaml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 64 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to the documentation of the `buildkite/docs` repository, focusing on providing guidance on Buildkite features. Their commits include updates to screenshots for various integrations, such as GitHub, and revisions to the getting started tutorial. The user also added content for the command step type and updated descriptions in the sidebar, indicating a focus on refining and expanding the documentation's comprehensiveness and clarity.
buildkite-documentationbuildkitesource-files
scopegate/octave
Jan 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 9 months
library-freehandmadeiosoctavesounds
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