SaaS

CI/CD Pipeline Overhaul Saves 200+ Engineering Hours Monthly

Re-architected a fragile Jenkins setup into a modern GitHub Actions pipeline with ephemeral runners, matrix builds, and automated security scanning.

CloudNova

200+ Hours Saved / Month

6 min Avg Build Time

84% Faster Builds

3% Retry Rate

The Challenge

CloudNova's engineering team of 65 was bottlenecked by a single Jenkins controller running 12 plugins with conflicting dependencies. Build queues routinely exceeded 40 minutes, and flaky integration tests caused a 30% retry rate.

Our Approach

Pipeline Design — Created reusable composite GitHub Actions workflows for build, test, scan, and deploy stages.
Ephemeral Runners — Self-hosted runners on spot instances with auto-scaling groups — zero queue wait, 70% cheaper.
Security Shift-Left — Integrated Trivy for container scanning, SonarQube for SAST, and dependency-check in every PR.
Artifact Management — Centralised Docker images and npm packages in AWS CodeArtifact with retention policies.

Results

Average build time dropped from 38 minutes to 6 minutes. The flaky-test detection system cut retry rates to under 3%. Engineers reclaimed 200+ hours per month previously lost to CI friction.