Sephora is a visionary beauty-retail concept founded in France

Context

• Managed vendors Akamai (mPulse and CDN) and Rigor (Synthetic).
• Designed and deployed Akamai ImageManager across Desktop, Mobile Web and App.
• Represented Frontend Team at Architecture Council and Weekly Management meetings.

Achievements

• CDN: Reduced bandwidth charges by approx 30%.
• Improved cache offload of pages by > 80% and helped prepare sites for Black Friday / Cyber Monday events - y/y 20%+ growth.
• Reduced Meaningful Paint to sub 2 seconds.
• Leveraged Akamai to open up their site to crawling of Canadian pages by SEO spiders.
• Setup and ran Synthetic measurement program (Rigor).
• Ran successful Bot Management PoC.