Twisted Mountain Animation / Service deployment pipelines
One deployment workflow for 7+ services
At Twisted Mountain Animation, I built and owned pipelines that take a full environment from container builds through testing and Kubernetes rollout.
Senior Software Engineer Nov 2025–Present
The problem: Why do manual multi-service deployments risk production downtime?
Coordinating updates across 7+ interconnected microservices without automation creates deployment bottlenecks, version drift, and downtime risks. At Twisted Mountain Animation, manual image tagging, disjointed test scripts, and uncoordinated rollouts frequently led to configuration mismatches between services, delayed production releases, and made troubleshooting failed deployments slow and stressful.
What I built: Unified container CI/CD and automated Kubernetes rollout
How do automated containerized pipelines streamline multi-service CI/CD?
Standardized containerized build pipelines package and run unit and integration tests concurrently across 7+ production microservices. Caching Docker layer artifacts and executing automated health checks before deployment prevents broken builds from reaching container registries, cutting release cycle friction and ensuring environment consistency between local development and production.
How do declarative Kubernetes rollouts ensure zero-downtime deployments?
Declarative Kubernetes rolling updates transition workloads pod-by-pod, routing live traffic only to newly launched containers that pass readiness and liveness probes. At Twisted Mountain Animation, this unified deployment across all platform microservices, enabling atomic, one-click environment updates with automated health verification and zero service disruption.
How do automated rollback triggers and failure reporting protect release stability?
Integrated health checks continuously monitor pod readiness, HTTP error rates, and crash-loop signals during deployments. If an anomaly is detected, the pipeline automatically halts the rollout and triggers instant rollback to the previous stable revision, alerting the on-call engineering team via instant notifications with complete diagnostic logs.
The result: How did automated CI/CD unify multi-service production releases?
Deploying automated CI/CD pipelines across 7+ microservices transformed release engineering at Twisted Mountain Animation into a deterministic, single-action workflow. Build validation, testing, Kubernetes rolling updates, and error reporting were unified into a single pipeline, cutting release cycle times, eliminating manual configuration drift, and supporting reliable production uptime.
*Internal engineering deployment architecture at Twisted Mountain Animation.