Steven Devonport
Group Head Of Quality Assurance at Connells Group
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Devonport is a people-first technology leader with over 30 years of experience transforming QA and engineering functions across sectors including animal healthcare, financial services, and retail banking. As Group Head of Quality Assurance, he combines strategic leadership with deep hands-on expertise in DevOps, automated quality gates, BDD/TDD, and cloud cost optimisation to accelerate delivery while reducing defects and spend. He has a track record of scaling teams (including a 50% expansion at Medivet), restoring trust through transparent leadership, and embedding shift-left quality practices that turn prevention into a business metric. Known for building internal capability rather than outsourcing, he champions career development frameworks that retain talent and democratise automation. Outside of enterprise work he pursues indiedev roguelike projects on GitHub, reflecting a continued curiosity for hands-on coding and iterative product craft. Based in the UK, he excels at navigating complex organisational change and aligning engineering practices to measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Padstow
Github Skills (24)
twine9
procedural-generation8
tactics8
dm8
crossword8
rpg7
2d-game7
roguelike7
field-of-view7
procedural7
libtcod6
mongodb5
game-development5
django5
testing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
devonps/talesfromticronem
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
2d turn-based roguelike with a focus on magical combat, procedural generation, and tactics
Contributions:392 commits, 130 PRs, 616 pushes in 2 years 2 months
gamerpg2d-turndmturn-based
devonps/mealplanning
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Creating a Python3/flask web based application whilst up-skilling.
Contributions:32 PRs, 21 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 5 months
pythonjinja2flaskweb-basedflask-web
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