How Neon Bank uses GitHub

Neon Bank tackles financial exclusion in Brazil with GitHub Enterprise.

Woman holding Neon Bank card.

Overview

Industry: Financial Services
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
GitHub Enterprise Seats: 650

Key Results:

97.2% decrease in deployment time
25% increase in deployments

The Challenge

Neon Bank faced a convoluted and disconnected tech stack spanning BitBucket, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GoCD, JIRA, Sonarqube, and Veracode. Managing this collection of tooling proved difficult to govern and even more challenging to optimize, severely hampering the company's ability to build innovative features and keep pace with its rapid growth.

Before partnering with GitHub, deployment was a significant bottleneck. Some teams took up to six hours to deploy new features to production, and both BitBucket and GoCD created issues with uptime and unplanned maintenance that frequently added hours to the development lifecycle.

The Solution

Neon Bank consolidated its tech stack by adopting GitHub Enterprise and migrating its infrastructure-as-code pipelines from GitLab and GoCD to GitHub Actions. This streamlined the software development lifecycle across the entire organization.

Accelerated Deployments

The migration dramatically reduced deployment times. "I saw the worst application from build to deployment taking six hours," says Diovane Rinaldin, Neon Bank's Manager of Information Technology Engineering. "With GitHub, it takes 10 to 15 minutes. The improvement has been remarkable."

Improved Security and Reliability

Migrating source code and CI/CD pipelines to GitHub not only saved time but also improved security. "With Bitbucket, we were unable to solve persistent security issues that limited visibility in key areas. Now with GitHub, we no longer have to spend time trying to solve these challenges. It just works," explains Rinaldin.

Strengthened Innersource Culture

Neon Bank's office.

GitHub Actions bolstered Neon Bank's innersource development approach by promoting cross-team collaboration, facilitating knowledge exchange, and elevating code quality. Developers can now build apps in Angular, .NET, Python, and TypeScript using reusable workflows, as well as run mutation tests and mocks to ensure consistent practices across the organization.

Neon Bank saves developer time by using prebuilt Actions from the GitHub Actions marketplace to integrate with external platforms including Sonarqube, AWS, Kafka, Rabbit, Vault, and Kubernetes. This allows developers to focus on comprehensive testing and optimizing functionality rather than deployment, execution, or maintenance of third-party tooling.

Simplified Project Management

With its DevOps platform operating smoothly, Neon Bank cultivated an innersource culture throughout the organization. The company improved developer collaboration and productivity by creating new repos for individual projects and arranging developers into teams, which streamlined the development process and provided a single interface for code and pipelines. GitHub Issues now tracks project requirements, code enhancements, and bug fixes, enabling better collaboration.

Impact

By consolidating its tech stack on GitHub Enterprise, Neon Bank overcame the challenges to innovation that came with its rapid growth. The company improved its development processes, built a stronger innersource culture, and achieved faster deployments, better collaboration, and simplified project management.

"I feel a lot more comfortable going to sleep knowing I'm not going to get a call in the middle of the night saying somebody had a problem with a deployment," says Rinaldin. "GitHub provides this peace of mind."