diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 57d5ebe..35ddd8a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -1,33 +1,75 @@
-name: deploy to lambda
-on: [push]
+name: Deploy Python Lambda
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
 jobs:
-  deploy_source:
-    name: build and deploy lambda
+  deploy:
+    name: deploy
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      NODE_VERSION: 14.x # used for installing the serverless-python-requirements dependency from NPM
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [12.x]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        python-version:
+          - 3.12 # with a build matrix, you can specify a list of python versions to deploy with
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
-      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+      # --------- use Python to install Python dependencies and run linter, tests, etc. ---------
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-      - name: npm install and build
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Cache pip
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          # This path is specific to Ubuntu
+          path: ~/.cache/pip
+          # Look to see if there is a cache hit for the corresponding requirements file
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ hashFiles('requirements.txt') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-pip-
+            ${{ runner.os }}-
+      - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          npm ci
-          npm run build --if-present
-        env:
-          CI: true
-      - name: zip
-        uses: montudor/action-zip@v0.1.0
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install flake8 pytest
+          if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+      - name: Lint with flake8
+        run: |
+          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+          flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+
+      # --------- Use Node and NPM to install serverless-python-requirements ---------
+      - name: Use Node.js ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
         with:
-          args: zip -qq -r ./bundle.zip ./
-      - name: default deploy
-        uses: appleboy/lambda-action@master
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Cache node modules
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        env:
+          cache-name: cache-node-modules
         with:
-          aws_access_key_id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-          aws_secret_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          aws_region: eu-west-1
-          function_name: my-function
-          zip_file: bundle.zip
+          # npm cache files are stored in `~/.npm` on Linux/macOS
+          path: ~/.npm
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-build-${{ env.cache-name }}-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-build-${{ env.cache-name }}-
+            ${{ runner.os }}-build-
+            ${{ runner.os }}-
+      - name: Install Node dependencies (specifically, serverless-python-requirements)
+        run: npm install
+
+      - name: Serverless Deploy
+        uses: dhollerbach/github-action-serverless-with-python-requirements@master
+        env:
+          # SERVERLESS_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.SERVERLESS_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          # or if using AWS credentials directly
+          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}