Ashraf Atef

As engineering teams scale, CI/CD pipelines often become a hidden bottleneck — consuming valuable developer time and cloud resources. Each pull request waits in a long queue, remote runners get overloaded, and costs escalate. But what if the solution is already in your hands — literally? This talk presents a pragmatic approach to solving CI/CD delays by offloading parts of the pipeline to developers' local machines. Every engineer brings a powerful laptop to the team — why not make it part of your CI/CD strategy? Using Git hooks to trigger local CI automation, we can run lint checks, tests, and validations before the code even hits the server — drastically reducing pipeline queue time and cutting infrastructure costs. Of course, with local execution comes a new challenge: how do we trust that these checks actually ran? We'll address this by looking at ways to prevent developers from faking Git tags or bypassing required steps. We'll cover how to enforce integrity and ensure local results are valid and verifiable within your centralized CI system. By combining local execution with centralized CI checks, you can build a hybrid CI/CD strategy that boosts performance, scales with your team, and saves time and money — without compromising trust or reliability.