Quality assurance · Production

Mercado Libre accelerates developer productivity and security with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, and GitHub Advanced Security

The problem

Mercado Libre needed to keep more than 10,000 developers laser-focused on building new features while managing security proactively across every code commit and reducing time lost to repetitive or less engaging coding tasks.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source

Unified dev platform collaboration

trigger

“GitHub is at the heart of every aspect of software development at Mercado Libre, with everyone from developers to product managers to designers using the platform to collaborate”

Copilot generates code from comment

ai_action

“The first time he used GitHub Copilot, it wrote an entire script for him based on a single comment. "In some cases, the code was even better than what I would have done myself," he said.”

Advanced Security scans every commit

validation

“The company uses GitHub Advanced Security with secret scanning to evaluate every line of committed code for security issues”

Early security feedback to developers

human_review

“We're able to give developers security feedback early, so they can fix potential issues before they find their way into production”

Pull requests merged and deployed

output

“Mercado Libre's developers merge and deploy about 100,000 pull requests per day”

Reported outcome

With GitHub Copilot, Barrios spends half as much time to arrive at the correct code as before.
The team merges and deploys about 100,000 pull requests per day, and GitHub Advanced Security enables developers to fix potential issues before they find their way into production.

Reported metrics

Pull requests merged and deployed per day100,000

time to arrive at correct code with Copilothalf as much time

Developer satisfaction and productivityimproving satisfaction and productivity

Copilot trial resultsamazing results

Reported stack

GitHub EnterpriseGitHub CopilotGitHub Advanced Security

Source

https://github.com/customer-stories/mercado-libre

Read source ↗

Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

With GitHub Copilot, Barrios spends half as much time to arrive at the correct code as before.

What tools did this team use?

GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Advanced Security.

What results were reported?

Pull requests merged and deployed per day: 100,000; time to arrive at correct code with Copilot: half as much time; Developer satisfaction and productivity: improving satisfaction and productivity; Copilot trial results: amazing results (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this quality assurance AI workflow structured?

Unified dev platform collaboration → Copilot generates code from comment → Advanced Security scans every commit → Early security feedback to developers → Pull requests merged and deployed.

With GitHub Copilot, Barrios spends half as much time to arrive at the correct code as before.The team merges and deploys about 100,000 pull requests per day, and GitHub Advanced Security enables developers to fix potential issues before they find their way into production.