CASE STUDY

Skip's security now moves as fast as its code

The TLDR.

As Skip Loans began shipping more code with AI agents, the burden of existing security practices like quarterly security audits and security ADRs increased too. Dam Secure gives their engineering team real-time checks built into the planning stage and every pull request, so issues get caught before they ship. Head of Engineering Janyk Theron calls it a "lifesaver".

THE CHALLENGE

Security couldn't keep pace with AI agents.

Skip Loans' engineering team increasingly relied on AI coding agents to move faster, shipping more code across the business to support their home buyer platform.

But their security process hadn't caught up. Reviews meant engaging external parties once a quarter, or relying on individual engineers to think about security as part of the product design process.

That worked while the team was smaller and shipping less. It wasn't built for a workflow where AI agents were generating a growing share of the codebase, and Skip needed a way to bring the same rigor back into the development life cycle itself, without adding a manual step every engineer had to remember.

THE SOLUTION

Security that runs itself, on every PR.

Skip Loans onboarded Dam Secure directly into their existing GitHub workflow. Head of Engineering Janyk Theron described getting set up with Dam Secure was so straightforward he'd forgotten what it involved, a single terminal command to get it running across their coding editors.

From day one, Dam Secure reviewed the codebase and surfaced best-practice recommendations already suited to how the team worked. Rules now run automatically against every pull request, catching issues in real time before a human ever needs to review them manually.

the outcome

More autonomy, without losing sight of what ships.

Skip Loans' engineering team no longer waits on quarterly audits to catch important issues. Security checks now run on every pull request, the moment code is written, so issues get caught before they ship.

That shift has let Janyk Theron give his engineers more autonomy, knowing there's "something before code gets written and shipped that will check all the things that are important to us as an organization."

"Having Dam Secure in the loop genuinely brings me a sigh of relief, knowing it's always checking what matters before code ships."

Janyk Theron
Head of Engineering, Skip Loans

"Dam Secure is not just a security partner, but a sage who can lead us to higher levels of maturity."

Janyk Theron
Head of Engineering, Skip Loans
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