diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f0b17d56d..99a5c2ea0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@
     "detect-indent": "^6.1.0",
     "diff": "^5.0.0",
     "figures": "^3.0.0",
+    "http-proxy-agent": "^5.0.0",
+    "https-proxy-agent": "^5.0.1",
     "js-yaml": "^4.0.0",
     "jsonpath": "^1.1.1",
     "node-html-parser": "^6.0.0",
diff --git a/src/github.ts b/src/github.ts
index 911a95650..99199455c 100644
--- a/src/github.ts
+++ b/src/github.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ import {
   FileNotFoundError as MissingFileError,
 } from '@google-automations/git-file-utils';
 import {Logger} from 'code-suggester/build/src/types';
+import {HttpsProxyAgent} from 'https-proxy-agent';
+import {HttpProxyAgent} from 'http-proxy-agent';
 
 // Extract some types from the `request` package.
 type RequestBuilderType = typeof request;
@@ -63,6 +65,11 @@ export interface GitHubOptions {
   logger?: Logger;
 }
 
+interface ProxyOption {
+  host: string;
+  port: number;
+}
+
 interface GitHubCreateOptions {
   owner: string;
   repo: string;
@@ -72,6 +79,7 @@ interface GitHubCreateOptions {
   octokitAPIs?: OctokitAPIs;
   token?: string;
   logger?: Logger;
+  proxy?: ProxyOption;
 }
 
 type CommitFilter = (commit: Commit) => boolean;
@@ -202,6 +210,24 @@ export class GitHub {
     this.logger = options.logger ?? defaultLogger;
   }
 
+  static createDefaultAgent(baseUrl: string, defaultProxy?: ProxyOption) {
+    if (!defaultProxy) {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+
+    const {host, port} = defaultProxy;
+
+    return new URL(baseUrl).protocol.replace(':', '') === 'http'
+      ? new HttpProxyAgent({
+          host,
+          port,
+        })
+      : new HttpsProxyAgent({
+          host,
+          port,
+        });
+  }
+
   /**
    * Build a new GitHub client with auto-detected default branch.
    *
@@ -224,6 +250,9 @@ export class GitHub {
       octokit: new Octokit({
         baseUrl: apiUrl,
         auth: options.token,
+        request: {
+          agent: this.createDefaultAgent(apiUrl, options.proxy),
+        },
       }),
       request: request.defaults({
         baseUrl: apiUrl,
diff --git a/test/github.ts b/test/github.ts
index 8ff17454c..b54e69fde 100644
--- a/test/github.ts
+++ b/test/github.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import {resolve} from 'path';
 import * as snapshot from 'snap-shot-it';
 import * as sinon from 'sinon';
 
-import {GitHub, GitHubRelease} from '../src/github';
+import {GH_API_URL, GitHub, GitHubRelease} from '../src/github';
 import {PullRequest} from '../src/pull-request';
 import {TagName} from '../src/util/tag-name';
 import {Version} from '../src/version';
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ import {PullRequestBody} from '../src/util/pull-request-body';
 import {PullRequestTitle} from '../src/util/pull-request-title';
 import * as codeSuggester from 'code-suggester';
 import {RawContent} from '../src/updaters/raw-content';
+import {HttpsProxyAgent} from 'https-proxy-agent';
+import {HttpProxyAgent} from 'http-proxy-agent';
 
 const fixturesPath = './test/fixtures';
 const sandbox = sinon.createSandbox();
@@ -88,8 +90,40 @@ describe('GitHub', () => {
         owner: 'some-owner',
         repo: 'some-repo',
       });
+
       expect(github.repository.defaultBranch).to.eql('some-branch-from-api');
     });
+
+    it('default agent is undefined when no proxy option passed ', () => {
+      expect(GitHub.createDefaultAgent('test_url')).eq(undefined);
+    });
+
+    it('should return a https agent', () => {
+      expect(
+        GitHub.createDefaultAgent(GH_API_URL, {
+          host: 'http://proxy.com',
+          port: 3000,
+        })
+      ).instanceof(HttpsProxyAgent);
+    });
+
+    it('should throw error when baseUrl is an invalid url', () => {
+      expect(() => {
+        GitHub.createDefaultAgent('invalid_url', {
+          host: 'http://proxy.com',
+          port: 3000,
+        });
+      }).to.throw('Invalid URL');
+    });
+
+    it('should return a http agent', () => {
+      expect(
+        GitHub.createDefaultAgent('http://www.github.com', {
+          host: 'http://proxy.com',
+          port: 3000,
+        })
+      ).instanceof(HttpProxyAgent);
+    });
   });
 
   describe('findFilesByFilename', () => {
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 7cc659719..ad49e4f68 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "extends": "./node_modules/gts/tsconfig-google.json",
   "compilerOptions": {
+    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
     "lib": ["es2018", "dom"],
     "rootDir": ".",
     "outDir": "build",