Itaú Selects Harness to Advance AI-Era Software Delivery Across Latin America's Largest Private Bank

Itaú will deploy Harness as part of its strategy to evolve how engineers build and ship software within the bank — accelerating engineering velocity, strengthening governance, and supporting the bank's vision to further establish itself as a technology-driven financial institution in Latin America.

SAN FRANCISCO and SÃO PAULO, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Harness, the Autonomous SDLC Platform™, today announced Itaú Unibanco, the largest private-sector bank in Latin America, will use Harness as part of its strategy to evolve the foundations of software delivery across its entire engineering organization.

Itaú is a bank that increasingly operates with the speed, engineering practices, and modern infrastructure of the world's leading technology companies. Operating at that level requires a set of capabilities built for Itaú's scale. With thousands of engineers shipping software for millions of customers across digital banking, payments, and platform services, the bank needs to move quickly, intelligently, increasingly leveraging generative AI, without compromising the governance and resilience a global financial institution demands.

Advancing Software Delivery Capabilities

Itaú will adopt Harness as part of its strategy to evolve how its engineering organization builds and ships software. By standardizing delivery on governed templates, automated verification, and policy-driven controls, Harness brings intelligence to every stage of the delivery pipeline — giving Itaú's engineering teams faster builds, automated rollbacks, and a consistent deployment experience across the bank's primary languages and cloud environments, while embedding the security, audit, and compliance requirements of a regulated bank into every pipeline by default.

"The future of banking will be built on software, and the institutions that win will be the ones that can move fast without sacrificing control," said Carlos Eduardo Mazzei, CTO at Itaú Unibanco. "At Itaú, we continue to invest and evolve to become a reference in banking technology in Latin America. In this context, Harness contributes to our strategy by strengthening how our engineers deliver software, bringing additional intelligence, speed, and governance."

Built for Itaú's Scale and Standards

In the months ahead, following an initial adoption phase, Itaú plans to broaden its use of Harness across the full software delivery lifecycle, building a unified foundation that gives the bank's engineering leaders consistent visibility, control, and economics from code to production. As Itaú continues to scale its engineering organization, the goal is to reduce the time and effort required to move code from commit to production, freeing engineers to focus on building the experiences that differentiate the bank. The roadmap is designed to support Itaú's broader strategy of applying artificial intelligence across its engineering processes to further accelerate the speed and quality at which software gets built and shipped, positioning the bank to move at the speed modern financial services demands.

"As technology evolves and product cycles become increasingly faster and more efficient, our technology must continue advancing to support this new dynamic. As part of this ongoing evolution strategy, we are always evaluating capabilities that can help strengthen the way our engineering teams build and deliver software. Harness will support us in this journey", said André Palma, Director of Platform Engineering at Itaú Unibanco.

"Itaú is one of the most sophisticated engineering organizations in financial services, with the kind of scale and governance requirements that demand a delivery platform purpose-built for the AI era," said Arpit Patel, Chief Customer Officer at Harness. "We're proud to be Itaú's choice as the bank continues evolving its DevOps foundation, and we look forward to supporting their teams as they continue raising the bar for what a technology-driven financial institution can deliver."

To learn more about how Harness helps 1,000+ of the world's largest engineering organizations optimize software delivery with speed, safety, and governance, visit www.harness.io.

About Harness
Harness is the Autonomous SDLC Platform company, enabling engineering teams and agents writing code to deliver software quickly, reliably, and securely. Harness's platform includes the Software Delivery, Security Testing, Runtime Protection, and Cost Management Agents. The Agent Harness ties them together, sharing context from the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph and governing every action through identity, permissions, policy, and verification. Companies like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels use Harness to accelerate releases by up to 75%, cut cloud costs by up to 60%, and improve efficiency by up to 10x. Based in San Francisco, Harness is backed by Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures.

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