INDEPENDENT DEVOPS CONSULTING
CI/CD pipelines your team can operate confidently
Manual releases and fragile pipelines take time away from product work. I help small software teams build a clearer path from commit to deployment, with repeatable releases and a handover the team can use.
Remote collaboration with international software teams.
Discuss ci/cd and deliveryIs this the help your team needs?
For teams with manual deployment steps, unreliable builds, inconsistent environments, or a release process that depends on one person remembering what to do.
Start with the path from commit to production
A pipeline should make the release process understandable. Before changing tools, the useful questions are where feedback arrives too late, which steps still happen by hand, and how the team recovers when a deployment fails. A working build is only part of that picture.
Build and test
Review how dependencies, checks and build outputs move through the pipeline. Make failures easier to investigate and identify repeated steps that belong in shared configuration.
Release and rollback
Connect the build to a repeatable deployment process. Make the relationship between a release, its artifact and its target environment clear, including the steps needed to return to a working version.
Credentials and approvals
Look at how the pipeline accesses repositories and environments, where secrets are stored, and which changes need a human decision before they reach production.
Work with the tools you already use
My toolkit includes GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes. The starting point is your repository and deployment setup, rather than a requirement to migrate to a different platform.
Sometimes the useful change is a small repair to an existing workflow. In other cases, a team needs to replace manual deployment steps or make several pipelines follow a consistent pattern. We can discuss the approach in the context of your applications and the people who maintain them.
Keep the release process understandable after handover
Implementation and documentation belong together. The team taking over needs to know how to run a release, find its logs, understand its permissions and respond when something fails. Agreeing those acceptance checks early makes the handover concrete.
- Where the pipeline configuration and build artifacts live.
- How releases reach each environment and who can approve them.
- How deployment failures are investigated and rollback is handled.
- Which parts of the process remain manual and who owns them.
RELEVANT BACKGROUND
Experience behind the work
At JSC Liberty Bank, I overhauled build, deploy and rollback pipelines across frontend and backend applications, including applications that previously had no automation.
Application Server Administration · JSC Liberty Bank · 2022–2025
About Aleksandre GhvineriaPreparing to take over a pipeline?
Use a practical checklist to review ownership, release steps, rollback and documentation with the people who will run the system.
Read the CI/CD handover checklistTell me about your setup
I work on scoped implementation projects and ongoing engineering support. A description of the problem is a useful starting point.
- Where does the code live, and what runs the pipeline today?
- What is deployed, and to which environments?
- Which build or release steps are causing problems?
- Are you looking for a defined implementation project or ongoing support?