2022–2023 · Associate Software Developer

Seven-minute builds

Fixing the pipeline nobody wanted to own.

7 min
Average build: 10x
Workflow speed: −50%
Tech debt

What was at stake

Sharing a build with QA was a chore measured in coffee breaks, and the app carried years of legacy class components and untyped JavaScript. Both problems slowed every single change.

The calls I made

Implemented Fastlane for build distribution so anyone could ship a build to QA without babysitting Xcode.
Converted the codebase to TypeScript and migrated legacy class components to hooks.
Built a shared design system so the UI stayed consistent as the team grew.

What outlived it

Average build time down to 7 minutes; dev and QA workflow roughly 10x faster.
Technical debt cut by half; 100+ bugs closed.
Platform-specific bugs down 20%.