Kaiyi Li focused on stabilizing CI/CD pipelines for Shopify’s shopify-app-template-react-router and ui-extensions repositories, addressing deployment unpredictability and build flakiness. By implementing SHA-bound action pinning and explicit version tagging in YAML-based GitHub Actions workflows, Kaiyi ensured that CI processes remained consistent and reproducible, preventing unexpected changes from upstream action updates. This approach established a reliable release process and improved deployment determinism across both repositories. Leveraging skills in CI/CD, DevOps, and continuous integration, Kaiyi’s work provided a foundation for more predictable builds, though the scope was limited to two features and did not involve direct bug fixes during the period.