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Matthew Allford

Matt Allford is a Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy with over 15 years of experience across infrastructure, development, and operations. With a passion for education and content creation, he has authored courses at Pluralsight and presented at conferences across Australia and America, sharing his expertise in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, and cloud technologies. Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer specializing in helping customers realize value from modern deployment automation and cloud-native solutions.

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