Case Study: Plaid achieves faster developer workflows with GitHub

Plaid’s Developer Efficiency team speeds up workflows with developer happiness and GitHub at the heart of their operation

Plaid’s Developer Efficiency team needed a way to keep a fast-growing engineering organization productive, secure, and happy while managing complex development workflows across multiple offices and remote teams. Using GitHub as the foundation of its development lifecycle, Plaid expanded from a simple code-hosting setup to a broader platform for collaboration, pull requests, and internal tooling.

With GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, GitHub webhooks, and GitHub Pages, Plaid streamlined code review, automated infrastructure changes through Atlantis, integrated notifications with Slack, and unified documentation in one developer-friendly workflow. The result was faster iteration and more efficient deployments, with some workflows reduced from hours to minutes—allowing developers to complete a day’s work in about an hour.

Plaid

Jeeyoung Kim

Engineering Manager