Stew Abel
DevOps Consultant at Equal Experts
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStew Abel is a DevOps consultant with 15 years of hands-on experience helping teams deliver software reliably and quickly, currently advising HM Revenue & Customs and running his own consultancy, Grupetto Software. Grounded in software development, he spans project inception to live operations, with repeated roles improving delivery through automation, testing, and incremental capability building. He excels at coaching organisations to align technology with business value, fostering collaboration, transparency, and practical architecture choices rather than chasing tool trends. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and people-facing coaching, Stew has a track record of rescuing legacy systems and introducing sustainable practices like BDD, Kanban and automated testing. Based in Leeds, he combines public-sector scale experience with continuous consultancy work, making him adept at bringing pragmatic, low-friction change into complex environments.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Driffield SchoolHull College
Stackoverflow
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270reached
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Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stewabel/whitleycommunity.org
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
stewabel/HmrcHackathon
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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