Stephen Atwell
Principal Product Manager at Harness.io
With over 26 years of technology experience, Stephen focuses on solving problems encountered in his previous roles. He has worn hats ranging from network administrator, to database administrator, to software engineer, to product manager. Outside of work, Stephen develops open source garden planning software (Kitchen Garden Aid 2 ). Stephen was a speaker at Data on Kubernetes Day in 2023, the Continuous Delivery Summit in 2022, CDCon in 2023, 2022 and 2021, and the TBM Conference in 2015. He is also scheduled to speak at KubeCon 2024.
Upcoming presentations
Running stateful applications can provide many of the same advantages as stateless applications. In this talk, Stephen will share some thoughts on managing stateful applications as part of a CD Pipeline so that applications - and the application's data - can be versioned and deployed safely and repeatedly. This talk will discuss managing structural changes to a PostgreSQL database as part of a ...
Apr 23 2026
Past presentations
Database DevOps
CD for Stateful Applications
In this talk, Stephen Atwell and Chris Crow will share some thoughts on managing stateful applications as part of a CD Pipeline so that applications - and the application's data - can be versioned and deployed safely and repeatedly. This talk will discuss managing persistent data within Kubernetes, as well as managing structural changes to a database as part of a CD process. With Kubernetes and...
