We’re excited to welcome Jacob Haven to the Ansaro engineering team! He is a security engineer and Go aficionado who has spent the last 5 years working on backend systems, focusing on cryptography, authentication/authorization, and secure protocols. Jacob is passionate about creating clear, clean code and systems with security built in from the start. In his free time, he enjoys motorcycling, camping, backpacking, playing board games, and taking his dog Tyrion for walks.

We’re excited to welcome Ben Goldberg to Ansaro as our first engineering hire! He joins us after a successful few years with Originate. His attention to detail and eagerness to learn made him an obvious choice for our team. …

I mentioned in our last post that we are using Flow for static type checking to avoid common errors. In our React apps, we use a Babel plugin to strip the type annotations and make browser-compatible bundles. There are other times, such as Node.js services or Google Cloud Functions, where…

Welcome to the Ansaro Engineering publication! We’ll be sharing our learnings from building a new product from scratch and the engineering decision-making process behind important features. Follow our main publication to learn about people analytics and how data science can help with workforce decisions. …

Many apps need configuration to connect to a database or send requests to error reporting or analytics services. When you’re developing your app on your laptop, you might connect to a database at localhost. When you deploy your app to a hosting provider, you’ll likely want to connect somewhere else. …

For the last ~2 years, I’ve been using Terraform to manage mostly AWS infrastructure. It has allowed me to know exactly what resources I’ve provisioned, save time by using modules for common configurations, and have a (probably false) sense of security that I can replicate everything in another region with…