Fintech
Kestrel Pay
Deploys used to be an event. Now they are a row on a screen that goes green.
Priya Natarajan,
Kestrel moves money, so a bad deploy is a regulatory event. Their old process gated every release behind a Friday meeting.
Deploys as rows
With Helm’s release board, each deploy is a row with a health check attached. Green means done. Anything else pages the owner and rolls back.
They ship 127 times a week now, most of them before lunch.