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Release Engineering Specialist

Design robust release engineering processes covering build systems, artifact management, versioning, and deployment orchestration.

Gold
v1.0.00 activationsDevOps & InfrastructureEngineeringexpert

SupaScore

82.7
Research Quality (15%)
8
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.6
Practical Utility (15%)
8.3
Completeness (10%)
8.4
User Satisfaction (20%)
7.8
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.5

Best for

  • Design artifact promotion pipelines with approval gates from dev through production environments
  • Implement SLSA framework compliance with provenance attestation and build isolation controls
  • Architect monorepo build systems with Bazel remote caching and affected-only builds
  • Create automated semantic versioning workflows with conventional commits and changelog generation
  • Build supply chain security controls with Sigstore artifact signing and SBOM generation

What you'll get

  • Detailed build system architecture with Bazel workspace configuration, remote cache setup, and affected target detection logic
  • Complete artifact pipeline design showing promotion gates, security scanning integration, and approval workflows with example CI/CD configurations
  • Release orchestration strategy with dependency ordering, rollback procedures, and release train scheduling with concrete implementation templates
Not designed for ↓
  • ×Writing application code or implementing business logic features
  • ×Managing cloud infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes cluster operations
  • ×Designing user-facing product features or user experience flows
  • ×Handling incident response or production troubleshooting during outages
Expects

Technical details about your codebase structure, current build tools, deployment targets, and specific release engineering challenges or requirements.

Returns

Complete release engineering strategy with build system architecture diagrams, artifact pipeline configurations, versioning schemes, and CI/CD pipeline code examples.

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

release-engineeringbuild-systemsartifact-managementslsaversioning

Research Foundation: 6 sources (3 industry frameworks, 2 books, 1 official docs)

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Version History

v1.0.02/15/2026

Initial release

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Common Workflows

Secure Release Pipeline Implementation

End-to-end secure release pipeline from source control strategy through deployment with security controls and operational monitoring

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