Case Study: Glympse achieves 8x faster, more secure deployments with GitLab

With GitLab, Glympse is able to improve security scanning and deploy time

Glympse, a Seattle‑based real‑time location‑sharing company, faced a fragmented developer toolchain—about 20 different tools and disjointed Jenkins jobs—that diverted engineers from shipping product and complicated deployments and audits. To simplify processes and tighten security, Glympse adopted GitLab, leveraging GitLab Gold features and built‑in CI/CD pipelines to centralize code, review, testing, and deployment.

GitLab consolidated roughly ~20 tools into one platform, wiring pipelines to AWS with auto‑scaling runners and enabling SAST, DAST, container scanning, code quality, and license compliance jobs. The result: deploy times fell from hours to under 30 minutes (about an 8x improvement), security jobs were implemented across 50+ repositories within a two‑week sprint, five teams now use GitLab, and Glympse made measurable progress toward SOC 2 Type II—leading to faster, more frequent, auditable releases and reduced deployment fatigue.

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Zaq? Wiedmann

Lead Software Engineer