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From legacy to continuous deployment
From legacy to continuous deployment
How we got to continuous deployment in some of our legacy systems.
Solon Aguiar
Aug 13, 2023
Developing Opportunities
Developing Opportunities
Pipeline to success
Amalia Bryant
Jun 8, 2022
Optimizing DORA Metrics to Drive Exponential Gains in Business Outcomes (Part 1 of 4)
Optimizing DORA Metrics to Drive Exponential Gains in Business Outcomes (Part 1 of 4)
It has been thoroughly documented that companies which perform well in terms of velocity and quality of their software development are also…
Denali Lumma
Mar 29, 2022
How We Onboard New Engineers (Part I)
How We Onboard New Engineers (Part I)
Transitioning to remote
Jason Brown
Feb 15, 2022
It’s always greener on the other pipeline
It’s always greener on the other pipeline
How we improved CI/CD pipeline reliability with analytics, new cataloging and fixing processes, optimized infrastructure, and a shared…
Jason Brown
Sep 22, 2021
International expansion and multi-region deployments
International expansion and multi-region deployments
Checkr’s fair chance hiring initiative unblocked 400k job candidates in 2019 and 1.5 million in 2020 who were previously ineligible due to…
Jason Brown
Mar 8, 2021
Checkr’s Expungement Service: from Hack Week to MVP
Checkr’s Expungement Service: from Hack Week to MVP
How did a scrappy Hack Week team build one of the simplest, fastest, and most affordable record expungement offerings in the nation?
Melanie Cernak
Nov 12, 2020
The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage
The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage
This article is a written version of the talk “The Sounds of Silence: Lessons from an 18 hour API outage” presented at RailsConf 2020.2…
Paul Zaich
Jun 29, 2020
Hybrid API management with Kong
Hybrid API management with Kong
Managing your API Gateway at scale
Ivan Rylach
Jun 9, 2020
How we’re humanizing the background check process with Candidate Stories
How we’re humanizing the background check process with Candidate Stories
Individuals with criminal records, including the 650,000 people released from prison each year, face significant challenges when applying…
Melanie Cernak
Apr 16, 2020
Furthering our mission with the design process
Furthering our mission with the design process
Today 70 million Americans (or as many as one in three adults) have a criminal record. That criminal record can follow a person for…
Melanie Cernak
Oct 1, 2019
Checkr Contest: Join us at Grace Hopper!
Checkr Contest: Join us at Grace Hopper!
At Checkr, our mission is to build a fairer future by improving understanding of the past. That means having an employee base which…
Krista Moroder
Sep 9, 2019
Who’s Who? Identity Matching Using Applied Machine Learning
Who’s Who? Identity Matching Using Applied Machine Learning
Ask yourself — how many people have your first and last name? What about the same name and date of birth (DOB)? How about the same name…
Patrick Dalton
Aug 7, 2019
We’re excited to highlight Michelle Xue our Director of Engineering, Foundation!
We’re excited to highlight Michelle Xue our Director of Engineering, Foundation!
In her role, Michelle leads and mentors the Infrastructure, Data and Platform teams. To get to know Michelle better, we sat down and asked…
Checkr
Jun 6, 2019
Building software to manage the complexities of background checks
Building software to manage the complexities of background checks
At Checkr we are building software to help companies hire at scale, and our background checks are a big part of what makes that possible…
Ben Jacobson
May 23, 2019
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