Client work
CI/CD Acceleration for a Regulated Product Team | Shawn Lawyer
Improved deployment reliability and release cadence for a regulated SaaS platform while preserving compliance controls.
What mattered most
- Compliance evidence was required for every release
- Manual approvals slowed the release process
- Staging and production behavior were not aligned enough
Results
- The team released with more confidence and less manual effort
- Release work became easier for engineering managers to oversee
- Recovery steps became clearer and faster when issues happened
Key numbers
- 47% faster lead time from commit to production
- 61% reduction in deployment failure rate
- Mean time to recovery reduced by 38%
How the work moved forward
The team needed a release process that was easier to trust and easier to run. The work focused on making releases faster, more consistent, and easier to support in a regulated environment.
What changed
- Moved key repositories to a stronger shared pipeline baseline.
- Added automated checks and release evidence for compliance needs.
- Built clearer release runbooks tied to incident response.
Result
The team moved to steady weekly releases with stronger confidence, better visibility, and less manual release stress.