Michael Noonan
VP of Engineering Octopus Deploy
I started as a software engineer with the Running Systems team on F/RF-111C with Boeing and fell in love with software from that point on. Since that time I've worked in a variety of areas, until becoming a consultant with Readify. After seven amazing and back-breaking years as a Lead Consultant, I moved in 2015 to work with Paul Stovell on Octopus Deploy. In 2016 I took on the VP of Engineering role at Octopus helping build the world-class engineering capability we need to scale up.
Talks I've Given
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Scaling Up Octopus - Lessons Learned
Featuring Michael Noonan
In January 2021, we set out to aggressively scale up the R&D team at Octopus. Starting at 39 people, we set a target of 95 and called ourselves crazy, expecting to achieve something more realistic. By August, we'd done it (whoa!) and are now consolidating this growth into a cohesive...
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World-class engineering for an Octopus
Featuring Michael Noonan
At Octopus we are dedicating about 50% of our revenue to R&D. This is a big bet, and as the VP of Engineering, my goal is to tip the odds in our favour by building a world-class product development team.
In this talk, I will describe what a world-class product development team looks like from...
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