CI/CD, Test Automation & Platform Consultant
You hired more engineers and bought AI tools. Delivery did not speed up. I measure what slows you down and what it costs, then build the fix with your team: faster pipelines, safer releases, and AI agents where they help.
For engineering teams of 20 people or more whose CI and tests slow them down. Each step has a fixed scope and a fixed length.
2–3 weeksStart here
1–3 months
6–12 months
I use the same five steps on every pipeline, in this order. Most teams start at step five.
We start from first principles. What does your team need to ship safely? Every check in your pipeline had a reason once. We keep the ones whose reason still holds, and give each one an owner.
Jobs nobody reads, tests that never fail and steps kept "just in case" go first.
Fewer stages, clear owners, one way to do each thing.
Then we cut the wait with caching, test selection, parallel runs and merge queues.
Automation, agents included, comes last. It goes on the process that survived the first four steps.
I use AI agents in my own work every day, and I add them to delivery pipelines where they save time. People still add the most value in three places.
Where this method comes from, and what the people I worked with say about it.
Six years on the CI and test systems behind the Unity engine. I moved the Graphics SRP codebase (500 developers, 30,000 commits) into the engine repository with no data lost and no development stop, and test coverage grew 50 times.
He has a rare ability to combine strategic thinking with consistent, high-volume delivery — he doesn't just identify what needs to be done, he follows through and gets it done, thoroughly and reliably.
He's had large impact on Unity's graphics related CI pipelines and tooling, enabling this important area of the Unity Engine to cover all the relevant dimensions of build configurations at scale. […] He's also been an early adopter for AI agentic development, improving his productivity even further.
He has a deep understanding of CI/CD and build systems, but what really sets him apart is his ability to make complex processes easy to understand.
Different CI system or tech stack? The bottlenecks are usually the same. Ask me.
What I learn about building and shipping software, written down as I go.
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Flow Town is a free interactive map of Enablement Engineering: find where your software delivery is stuck, or choose your next DevOps specialisation.
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Merge queues automate rebasing and testing PRs at scale, with batching, speculative checks, and bisection tradeoffs explained through failure-rate math.
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Fix slow CI with test selection: test impact analysis, only-changed flags and Meta's Predictive Test Selection skip the tests a change can't break.
I'm Théo, a freelance CI/CD and test automation consultant. For six years I kept CI and test automation working for Unity's Engine organisation, on more than 20 platforms, from mobile to XR and consoles.
I lived in Paris for 30 years, and now operate from Norway. I work remotely with teams across Europe, in English or French.
English · French · Spanish (intermediate, B1) · Norwegian (elementary, A2)
More about meNo commitment and free. Tell me where delivery hurts, and I'll tell you if I can help.
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