Case Study: PayPal Braintree achieves streamlined distributed development and faster SDK releases with GitHub

Braintree - Customer Case Study

Braintree, a Chicago-based payments company recently acquired by PayPal, needed a way to coordinate engineering work across small, distributed teams while shipping client and server SDKs and running a private beta for its v.zero Payments API. The challenge was to create a developer-native workflow that supported inter-organizational collaboration, beta feedback, and public SDK distribution without slowing release velocity.

Braintree adopted GitHub organizations, inter-org repositories, pull requests, team permissions and GitHub Releases to centralize development, add beta participants directly to repos, and accept external contributions. The result was a more modern engineering culture, faster, centralized collaboration between offices and PayPal, direct beta feedback, smoother public SDK and documentation releases, and greater transparency into their development work.

PayPal Braintree

Mike Mettler

Product Manager, Braintree