Slow pipelines drain focus and burn your CI minute quota. In two weeks, we add smart caching for dependencies and Docker layers. We refactor steps into parallel jobs such as build, test, and lint to reduce wall-clock time. We deliver a clean, best-practice CI YAML with improved naming, matrix strategy, and retry rules. We also implement secure CI variable management so secrets stay out of the repository. We benchmark before and after times so you can see hard numbers and watch your GitHub Actions or GitLab runner usage drop.