Case Study: LinkedIn achieves better usability and developer satisfaction with GitHub

LinkedIn boosts usability and developer satisfaction with GitHub

LinkedIn, the professional networking platform used by more than 756 million people, needed better collaboration tools and a modernized developer experience for thousands of engineers. After evaluating options, LinkedIn chose GitHub Enterprise for its usability, extensibility, and security, replacing its self-hosted Git and Subversion repositories.

GitHub helped LinkedIn streamline development by consolidating pull request workflows, improving CI/testing integration, and adding security scanning with GitHub Advanced Security and CodeQL. The results were strong: LinkedIn now has more than 2,900 developers using GitHub Enterprise, early-adopter satisfaction reached 4.8/5 versus 3.4 before, and work that once took a quarter can now be done in two days.

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Luke Young

Senior Staff Information Security Engineer