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At my last company I led automating CI/CD for a 12-service payments platform used by ~200k monthly users. We standardized builds with GitHub Actions, containerized with Docker, and used ArgoCD for GitOps deployments to EKS. For environment-specific config I moved secrets to AWS Secrets Manager and templated non-sensitive settings with Helm values.yaml per environment, plus a small config validation step in CI. I introduced automated integration tests and canary manifests so only 5% of traffic hit new versions initially. Over three months we cut release time from 4 hours to 20 minutes, reduced rollback frequency by 70%, and increased deploy frequency from twice/month to daily while keeping incidents under 1/week.
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