"Pivot: CNN Travel Mobile App API and Responsive Web Design"

30M

Monthly page views reached on the CNN Travel vertical

Developers across a globally distributed engineering team

Weekly

Agile scrum release cadence from day one of the programme

Launched multilingual hyper local CNNGo product ultimately becoming the global CNN Travel vertical.

My impact: Coached and trained development team in agile scrum delivering weekly releases that enabled server infrastructure to scale to 30 million page views per month, and high 7 figures (USD) in attributable revenue through custom advertising executions.

Learnings: Frequent releases allowed us to learn quickly and pivot from standalone apps to a mobile-responsive website, recognizing that mobile experiences should offer unique value beyond replicating web content.

CNN Travel mobile site (left) and CNN Go app (right) — the products that scaled to 30M monthly page views.

CNN Travel mobile site (left) and CNN Go app (right) — the products that scaled to 30M monthly page views.

Tech stack

Platform & Infrastructure

Drupal CMS MySQL Akamai CDN Rackspace DoubleClick (DFP)

Front-end & API

jQuery REST API CSS3

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Pivot: CNN Travel Mobile App API and Responsive Web Design

Tech stack

"Building a distributed engineering team?"