Donovan Clarke

Donovan Clarke is a staff software engineer at Runpod.

August 17, 2026

The fix wasn't more compute: how we cut merge-queue CI time in half

By optimizing test architecture through pool-mode parallelization and isolated worker identities rather than increasing compute resources, the team successfully reduced merge-queue CI times by 55%.

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