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Ethan Salway

Build & Release Engineer

Pipelines that ship code safely, repeatably, fast

+44 113 555 0579
github.com/ethansalway

Build and release engineer with eight years owning CI/CD, build systems and release management for software teams in Leeds. Designs and maintains the pipelines that take code from commit to production — automated builds, testing gates, artifact management and zero-downtime deployments. Rebuilt a brittle release process into a fully automated pipeline that cut release time from days to under an hour. Manages build infrastructure, versioning and branching strategy, automates with scripting and infrastructure-as-code, and keeps releases reliable and auditable. Strong across Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms, and good at unblocking developers. Calm during a production release and rigorous about rollback safety. Looking for a build/release or DevOps engineering role with a team that wants shipping to be boring and safe.

LocationLeeds, UK
NationalityBritish
GenderMale
Notice Period1 month
Date of Birth1993-08-14
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(April 2018 to Present)8 years & 3 months

Leeds Software Group - Leeds, UK

Build & Release Engineer

Own the CI/CD, the build systems and the release management right across multiple product teams.
Rebuilt a brittle release process into an automated pipeline that cut release time from days to under an hour.
Design the pipelines with automated builds, the testing gates, artifact management and safe deployments.
Manage the build infrastructure, the versioning and the branching strategy right across all the repositories.
Automate with scripting and infrastructure-as-code to keep all the releases repeatable and fully auditable.
Unblock the developers and manage the rollback safety carefully during every single production release.
(August 2014 to March 2018)3 years & 8 months

Yorkshire Digital Systems - Leeds, UK

DevOps / Build Engineer

Maintained the CI pipelines and the build tooling for the development teams.
Automated the builds, tests and deployments to reduce manual release effort.
Learned containers, Kubernetes and the infrastructure-as-code in real production environments.
Gained the CKA certification and then moved into a build/release engineering role.
(June 2012 to July 2014)2 years & 2 months

Yorkshire Digital Systems - Leeds, UK

Software Developer / SysAdmin

Worked across development and systems administration in a small software team daily.
Scripted the deployments and maintained the build and the test servers daily.
Learned the automation, Linux and the release pipeline hands-on at work.
Then earned the move into a DevOps and build-engineering role from there.
Qualification
(September 2011 to June 2014)2 years & 10 months

University of Leeds

BSc (Hons) Software Engineering - Software Engineering

Software engineering degree covering development, build tooling and systems, with a placement year. The placement led into build and release work. Built the engineering foundation behind the role.
(January 2018 to May 2018)5 months

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - DevOps & Cloud

CKA certification covering Kubernetes administration, deployments, networking and cluster operations. It formalised the container-platform skills used daily across the team. Applied directly to containerised build and deployment pipelines.
Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (May 2018 to Present)

CKA certification covering Kubernetes administration, deployments and cluster operations. It formalised the container-platform skills used daily. Applied directly to containerised build and deployment pipelines.

Terraform & CI/CD Automation

HashiCorp (April 2019 to Present)

Certification in Terraform infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation. It supports the repeatable, auditable pipelines and the build infrastructure managed across the product teams.
Specialities
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Jenkins & GitLab CI
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Release Management
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Build Automation
  • Scripting (Bash/Python)
  • Artifact Management
  • Cloud Platforms
Personal Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Composure
  • Attention to Detail
  • Collaboration
  • Reliability
Highlights

Days to under an hour

Rebuilt a brittle release process into a fully automated pipeline that cut release time from days to under an hour. Fast, safe releases let the whole team ship far more often.

Boring releases by design

Makes production releases calm, repeatable and reversible rather than tense all-hands events. When shipping is boring, the engineering organisation is doing something right.
Key Projects

Containerised Build Platform

Build & Release Engineer (January 2019 to September 2019)

Built a containerised build-and-test platform on Kubernetes, giving every team fast, consistent builds and removing the snowflake build servers that used to break without warning.

Zero-Downtime Deployment Rollout

Build & Release Engineer (February 2020 to July 2020)

Introduced blue-green and canary deployments across the main services, so releases went out during the day with instant rollback instead of risky out-of-hours change windows.
Languages

English (UK)

Native or Bilingual Proficiency

German

Limited Working Proficiency
Activities & Interests

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