Capability — CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
Ship on a pipeline, not a prayer.
We design and build the build/test/release pipeline your team actually needs — staged environments, real rollbacks, and gates that catch problems before your users do.
Process
Five steps, in order.
We don't start writing pipeline config until we know what it's replacing.
Audit
We map the current path from commit to production: every manual step, every "just SSH in and restart it," every place a release depends on one person being awake.
Design
We choose the shape: trunk-based or GitFlow, how environments are promoted, what blocks a merge, and what a rollback actually does when it's 2am.
Build
Pipeline as code, checked into your repo. Staged environments, automated tests gating promotion, secrets handled by a vault instead of a YAML file.
Harden
Monitoring, alerting, and a rollback path that's been tested on purpose — not discovered for the first time during an incident.
Handoff
Documentation and a runbook your on-call engineer can actually follow, plus a walkthrough with the team before we step back.
Standards
What we hold the pipeline to.
Not "industry best practices" as a slogan — these are the specific things we check for.
Short-lived branches and feature flags over long-lived branches — merged to main daily, not held for weeks.
Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore service — measured before and after, so "better" isn't just a feeling.
Environments defined in Terraform or Pulumi, not clicked together in a console, so staging actually matches production.
Blue-green or canary rollout patterns in place of maintenance windows, wherever the architecture allows it.
Pulled from a secrets manager at runtime, rotated on a schedule, and never printed in a build log.
Changes to the pipeline itself go through the same pull-request review as application code — no direct edits in a CI dashboard.
Deliverables
What you're left with.
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