Infrastructure and release pipeline

Why it existed

A three-person team needs to ship to production many times a week without anyone babysitting a deploy.

What I built

• Postgres with backups, object storage with scoped permissions, and TLS.
• Push-to-main auto-deploy that confirms the new version is serving before it runs migrations.
• A Playwright visual and accessibility suite behind a 25-check smoke test.
• Performance work: self-hosted fonts and a server-rendered first feed image removed 5.7 to 8.1 seconds of LCP load delay.

Outcome

I also lead release engineering: cutting releases, reviewing PRs, setting review conventions and onboarding new engineers.