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David Chelly
David Chelly · Nov 2024 — Feb 2026

Team CI/CD pipeline

Software Engineer

Code reviews piled up, deploys were manual, and clients waited days for fixes that were already merged. I built the pipeline that closed that gap.

CI/CD GitHub Actions DevOps
merge → deploy in minutes, not days

problem

  • → Every release was assembled by hand — risk of human error and slow turnaround.
  • → PRs sat unreviewed because there was no automated signal on whether changes were safe.
  • → Clients waited longer than they should have for fixes already approved internally.

approach

  • → Set up a CI pipeline that runs builds, type checks, and basic tests on every PR.
  • → Automated the deploy step so a merge to main reaches the relevant environment without hand-holding.
  • → Made the pipeline fast enough that developers actually wait for it instead of bypassing it.

result

  • → Time from merge to client environment dropped from days to minutes.
  • → Reviewers got a green/red signal up front — fewer broken-main incidents.
  • → Team shipped more frequently with smaller, safer changes.
stack
GitHub Actions Docker Bash Nginx

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