In 2020, Onfido held its first remote Hackathon event. We called it “The 2020 Effect,” and invited participants to help shape the impact 2020 would have on Onfido. No one on the committee had planned a remote Hackathon before then. …

First things first — Why am I writing this article? I had my first experience working on deploying a new machine learning model to a live production system two years ago when I joined a high profile project said to be game-changing for our business (no pressure!). We had a…

At Onfido we’re continually innovating and thinking about how we can improve important things like our communication, customer experience, processes and services. After all, one of our core values is ‘find a better way’ and Onfidoers practice this in their daily work. When Patrick Cahill from the Onfido legal team…

2020 was not a normal year by any means. The world changed, and as the physical world stood still, the digital world accelerated. Our work, personal, and family lives all came crashing together — from figuring out virtual homeschooling to how to navigate the grocery store. There’s a running joke…

Co-authored by Mario Cardoso and Andre Rabello. The Operations Tools team in Onfido handles a lot of repositories. Being “the glue” for manual check processing, the domain is large and vast. Front-end projects were written in JavaScript and while there was some Flow types, they weren’t first-class citizens and were…

One day I stumbled onto a ticket from the website team that was open for several days. The ticket was for a simple change, to enable file compression. The comments went back and forth. First we would try something, then we would ask someone else to test. Then they would…