CI/CD and Deployment Reliability
Releases take hours, fail intermittently, and nobody trusts the pipeline enough to deploy on Friday.
Redesign CI/CD for reliable AWS deploys: OIDC credentials, immutable artifacts, Terraform safety, smoke tests, and rollback paths you have actually exercised.
You probably need this if…
- Releases take hours; someone always redeploys manually to finish
- The pipeline fails intermittently and people re-run until it passes
- Production deploys happen off-hours because failure is expensive
- Infrastructure and application deploys are separate rituals that desync
- The team has a 'deploy hero' instead of a deploy process
What's actually going wrong
The deploy path wasn't treated as product infrastructure. Builds aren't reproducible, credentials are brittle, and there's no contract between what CI produces and what production runs, so every release is a negotiation.
What I review or implement
- Pipeline stages, artifact immutability, and deploy promotion logic
- OIDC and short-lived credentials instead of stored AWS access keys
- Terraform and application deploy ordering, state locking, and plan review
- Smoke tests, health checks, and automatic rollback triggers
- Cache strategy, parallelization, and elimination of flaky stages
What you get
- Pipeline redesign with stage diagram and implementation
- Deploy time baseline and measurable target
- Runbook: standard deploy, rollback, and hotfix paths
- Hardened CI secrets posture, no long-lived keys in GitHub
Proof
OIDC deploys from GitHub Actions
This site + regulated SaaS client
Both this portfolio and a regulated SaaS platform deploy through GitHub Actions with OIDC, no stored AWS keys. Terraform applies, Lambda builds, static site sync, and CloudFront invalidation run in a defined order with CI gates on every push to main.
- OIDC
- Short-lived credentials, no static keys
- Terraform
- Infra + app deploy in one pipeline
- Gates
- Lint, test, and build before every deploy
Request a pipeline assessment
Describe your symptoms, not a job spec. I'll reply within 48 hours with an honest read on whether the problem is structural, operational, or something else entirely.