
Ethan Salway
Build & Release Engineer
Pipelines that ship code safely, repeatably, fast
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.
Leeds Software Group - Leeds, UK
Build & Release Engineer
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.
Yorkshire Digital Systems - Leeds, UK
DevOps / Build Engineer
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.
Yorkshire Digital Systems - Leeds, UK
Software Developer / SysAdmin
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.
University of Leeds
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering - Software Engineering
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - DevOps & Cloud
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (May 2018 to Present)
Terraform & CI/CD Automation
HashiCorp (April 2019 to Present)
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Jenkins & GitLab CI
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Release Management
- Infrastructure as Code
- Build Automation
- Scripting (Bash/Python)
- Artifact Management
- Cloud Platforms
- Problem Solving
- Composure
- Attention to Detail
- Collaboration
- Reliability
Days to under an hour
Boring releases by design
Containerised Build Platform
Build & Release Engineer (January 2019 to September 2019)
Zero-Downtime Deployment Rollout
Build & Release Engineer (February 2020 to July 2020)