While working at NBC News, in the middle of 2015 I proposed that NBC News builds a live blogging platform in preparation for 2016 elections. After certain approvals and prep work, I was put in charge of communicating between multiple teams to build this product. We launched the live blogging platform in early 2016 and it was a huge success right off the bat and remained a big driver of user engagement and as a result, revenue. The code that I wrote along with the senior developer on my team is still powering live blogs on NBC News as of Jan 2019.

The work that I have done to make this product:

• Study the way journalists add and edit content
• Develop a full stack framework for widgets (“cards”) in the liveblog
• Implement analytics and ad delivery
• Performance testing and optimizations
• Work with Analytics, Ads, CMS Teams

Technologies used:

• Node.js
• Backbone.js
• Vanilla JS
• CSS / SASS
• Handlebars
• jQuery

Read more about my work at NBCNews

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