We built this because our own CI was the slowest part of our day
Infrovel started in 2026 as a small team in Kathmandu who kept running the same math: a 10-minute CI run, multiplied by every push, multiplied by every engineer on the team, was hours of waiting a day that nobody had actually budgeted for. As a startup ourselves, we didn't have a platform team to fix it for us — so we built the thing we needed.
2026
Founded
5
People on the team
Kathmandu
Where we build
“We didn't want to add more machines to a slow pipeline. We wanted the pipeline to stop doing work it had already done.”
The common advice for a slow CI pipeline is to throw more compute at it — bigger runners, more parallel jobs. That helps, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem: most of what a pipeline runs on a given commit is identical to what it ran on the last one.
Infrovel exists to skip that redundant work entirely, not just run it faster. We're still a small startup, a few months into building it with early-access teams, and the roadmap is shaped directly by whichever job they're complaining about that week.
We also didn't want to build something that required a rewrite to adopt. Every one of us had, at some point, been handed a build-tooling migration that promised to fix CI and instead became a multi-quarter project of its own. Infrovel is deliberately designed to sit on top of the pipeline you already have, not replace it.
That constraint shapes almost every product decision we make. If a feature can't be adopted in an afternoon by a team that just found us, it doesn't ship — no matter how interesting the underlying engineering problem is.
A small team, directly involved in your rollout
Founder & CEO
Spent five years optimizing build systems at a previous job before starting Infrovel, and still reads every slow-job report personally.
Head of Infrastructure
Owns the cache and scheduling engine — the part of the platform that has to be correct on every single run.
Developer Experience Engineer
Works directly with early-access teams to connect their first pipeline, then folds what breaks back into the product.
What we're building next
GitLab CI and CircleCI support are next on the roadmap, followed by a self-hosted cache option for teams with data residency requirements. Both came directly from conversations with early-access teams, not from a roadmap we wrote in isolation.
Longer term, we want Infrovel to be the thing a new engineer on your team never has to think about — CI that's fast enough, and transparent enough about why, that it stops being a topic of conversation at all.