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Fintech Transforms CI/CD with 10x Faster Releases

Digital Lending Platform
Charlotte, NC
95 employees
3 months
10x
faster releases
Started:Jan 2024
Duration:3 months
Completed:Apr 2024

The Challenge

LendFlow, a digital lending platform, was losing ground to faster-moving competitors. Their release process required 2 days of manual testing, deployment coordination, and nervous monitoring. Releases happened monthly at best.

The 25% rollback rate meant every release was stressful. Engineers dreaded deployment days. Product features sat completed but undeployed for weeks.

Regulatory requirements added complexity-every change needed audit trails, security scanning, and compliance verification. The team assumed these requirements made automation impossible.

Our Approach

1

Pipeline Assessment & Design

Week 1-2

Analyzed existing release process, identified bottlenecks, and designed automated pipeline architecture meeting compliance requirements.

2

Automated Testing Suite

Week 2-6

Implemented comprehensive test automation including unit, integration, and E2E tests. Achieved 85% code coverage.

3

CI/CD Pipeline Build

Week 4-10

Built GitHub Actions pipelines with security scanning, compliance checks, and automated evidence collection for audits.

4

Blue-Green Deployment

Week 10-14

Implemented blue-green deployments with automatic rollback, canary releases, and feature flags for controlled rollouts.

Solution Overview

End-to-end CI/CD transformation including GitHub Actions pipelines, automated testing suite, security scanning integration, and blue-green deployments with automatic rollback.

The Results

Release frequency increased from monthly to daily
Deployment time reduced from 2 days to 30 minutes
Rollback rate dropped from 25% to under 2%
99.9% pipeline success rate achieved

Business Impact

Deals Enabled
Faster feature delivery improved customer retention 15%
Productivity Gain
Engineering velocity increased 10x
Risk Reduction
Rollback rate dropped from 25% to 2%

"We went from dreading releases to shipping with confidence daily. PlatOps transformed how we deliver software."

R
Rachel Kim, Director of Engineering
Digital Lending Platform

"Audit prep went from weeks of scrambling to pulling automated reports. Compliance is now effortless."

J
James Chen, Compliance Manager
Digital Lending Platform

Key Takeaways

  • Compliance and automation are complementary, not conflicting
  • Automated testing is prerequisite for confident deployment
  • Blue-green deployments eliminate deployment anxiety
  • Release frequency directly impacts competitive position

Key Outcome

10x
faster releases

Technologies Used

GitHub ActionsPlaywrightSnykDatadogLaunchDarkly

Compliance Frameworks

SOC 2 Type IIFFIEC Guidelines

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