2025 BairesDev
Developers' Choice Awards

Best Build Automation
& CI/CD Tool

And the award goes to…

GitLab CI/CD

Integrated DevSecOps platform where pipelines sit alongside code repositories, security scanning, and deployments.

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About the Awards

BairesDev engineers chose GitLab CI/CD for its all-in-one approach and simplicity. They valued having pipelines, code, issues, and deployments in a single platform that eliminates tool-switching, the single configuration file that drives the entire path from commit to production.

Developer Insights

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GitLab CI/CD turns our repository into a complete, fully customizable delivery pipeline. Builds, tests, and deployments run consistently every time.

Federico Schwarzbock

Engineering Manager, BairesDev

14 years of experience

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GitLab CI/CD is an elegant, simple, all-in-one solution.

Manuel Calle

Senior React Engineer, BairesDev

13 years of experience

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GitLab CI/CD is all about efficiency. Having everything from source control to deployment pipelines in one platform makes DevOps smoother than ever.

Mersy Ruiz

Database Administrator, BairesDev

11 years of experience

Honorable Mentions

Azure DevOps

Microsoft's managed CI/CD with Azure-native integration and enterprise-grade approval workflows.

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I like the easy integration with .NET and Azure. I don't get the same ease of use with Bitbucket and Atlassian.

Matheus Gorchinsky

Senior Software Engineer, BairesDev

6 years of experience

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GitHub Actions

Native CI/CD integrated with GitHub's platform, running workflows directly alongside code.

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Powerful and flexible, helps automate most of the deploy routine on our systems.

Rodrigo Dias De Azevedo

Senior Backend Engineer, BairesDev

25 years of experience

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About our Voters.

4K+

Full-Time Engineers

10+

Average Years of Experience

2M+

Annual Applications

We're a distributed team of over 4,000 full-time, senior-level developers. Every year, over 2 million applications are reviewed to identify the top engineering talent who join BairesDev.

This gives us unparalleled technical coverage and depth. Our teams span over 100 technologies, and we've used that expertise across 1,400+ projects since 2009.

For this award, votes in each category were cast by developers with direct, hands-on experience using these tools. These nominations came directly from senior practitioners building software at scale.

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