Jason BrownLessons from ExploreDDD 2024The ExploreDDD conference concluded in Denver on Friday. It occurred during the biggest snowstorm of the year (picture of that later)…Mar 19Mar 19
Jason BrownLe Club 2023I was honored to attend Checkr’s first “Le Club” trip. The program was created to motivate, celebrate, and invest in employees. Five…Mar 19Mar 19
Jason BrownRubyConf 2023RubyConf 2023 ended this evening. I like conferences for exposing me to new topics, such that when I encounter them at work, they feel less…Nov 16, 2023Nov 16, 2023
Jason BrownSoftware Podcast Reviews Pt. IIIn 2020, I did a long drive and took the opportunity to listen to and then recap a bunch of software development podcasts. I recently had a…Sep 7, 2023Sep 7, 2023
Jason BrownRollback, Revert, roll-forward, oh my!So despite merge request peer reviews, unit tests, end-to-end tests, and manual tests, a new application bug got into production causing an…Mar 29, 2022Mar 29, 2022
Jason BrowninCheckr EngineeringHow We Onboard New Engineers (Part I)Transitioning to remoteFeb 15, 2022Feb 15, 2022
Jason BrownRubyConf 2021 RecapRubyConf 2021 in Denver finished up yesterday. My coworker Andrew and I attended two days worth of talks over program tracks including…Nov 12, 2021Nov 12, 2021
Jason BrowninCheckr EngineeringIt’s always greener on the other pipelineHow we improved CI/CD pipeline reliability with analytics, new cataloging and fixing processes, optimized infrastructure, and a shared…Sep 22, 2021Sep 22, 2021
Jason BrowninCheckr EngineeringInternational expansion and multi-region deploymentsCheckr’s fair chance hiring initiative unblocked 400k job candidates in 2019 and 1.5 million in 2020 who were previously ineligible due to…Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021