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Updating Reference Data with Rollbacks Using Harness Database DevOps
Learn to version reference data with Liquibase OSS, automate deployments in Harness Database DevOps, and enable safe rollbacks.
July 28, 2026
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Principal Product Manager
Stephen Atwell develops products to improve the life of technologists. Currently, he leads Harness�s Database DevOps product. Stephen was a speaker at Kubecon 2024, Postgresconf 2024, Data on Kubernetes Day in 2023, the Continuous Delivery Summit in 2022, CDCon in 2023, 2022 and 2021, and the TBM Conference in 2015. Stephen started working in IT Operations in 1998 and transitioned to developing software in 2006. Since then he has focused on developing products that solve problems he experienced in his previous roles. Stephen holds a bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and 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 ). He lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife.
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