Stephen Walters
Field CTO at Team Topologies
Stone, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Walters is a Field CTO and seasoned Value Stream Management expert with over three decades of end-to-end IT experience and 15 years focused on strategic leadership roles across DevOps, DevSecOps and ALM. At GitLab he drives thought leadership on value-driven delivery and Team Topologies, and he co-authored the Value Stream Reference Architecture used by the VSM Consortium and its community. A certified practitioner in VSM, DevOps, SAFe, CMMI, ITIL, TOGAF and Prince2, he combines deep technical pedigree with practical transformation experience from large financial and enterprise programmes to modern SaaS platforms. He is a frequent speaker, community ambassador and workshop facilitator who translates organizational complexity into measurable flow improvements. An understated strength is his long track record of bridging tooling, architecture and process—dating back to hands-on configuration management and embedded systems work in the 1990s—to create pragmatic, value-focused change. Based in Stone, UK, he continues to research how to identify and organise around value streams to eliminate guesswork in delivery.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent, United KingdomBTEC HND Electrical & Electronic Engineering, BTEC HND Electrical & Electronic Engineering at The University of Huddersfield
Github Skills (21)
linux10
jupyter-kernels8
nodejs8
nix7
nixos7
jupyter-notebook6
spark-ml6
nextjs6
javascript6
flutter5
firebase5
dart5
kernel5
nixpkgs5
scala5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sjwalter/web-neopixel
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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