Travis Kuhl

Team Coco Digital Director of Technology and Engineering

• Founding member of teamcoco.com, the digital home of Conan O’Brien’s late-night talk show, CONAN. 
• Contributed to the development of the overall technical and business strategy for CONAN’s digital presence.
• Built and managed a team of internal developers, contractors and external partners to develop and integrate ad technology, analytics, mobile apps, and other advanced technologies.
• Architected and implemented a complex, secure, and cost-effective AWS cloud hosting infrastructure that allows for dynamic scalability, automated continuous deployments, and low touch maintenance. 
• Established and documented development best practices, constructed and maintained engineering roadmap, budgets and timelines monitored and mentored performance of the development team
• Worked closely with product, business, and editorial teams to translate complex requirements into custom technical solutions that meet the needs of a constantly changing content landscape.
• Developed and implemented a custom video and asset management platform; including cloud transcoding services, cloud clipping tools, secure video serving infrastructure, custom HTML5 video player and multi-platform social publishing.

Awards

• Winner: 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media Within An Unscripted Program
• 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media
• Nominee 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Interactive Program
• Nominee: 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Interactive Program
• Nominee: 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Interactive Program
• Nominee: 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media
• 2011 SXSW Interactive Awards: Best Social Media
• 2013 Gold Key Art Award for Innovative Media
• 2013 Gold Key Art Award for Experiential Engagement
• Nine Webby Awards including 2014 Entertainment Mobile App and 2013 Best Celebrity/Fan Site
• Seven Honoree Webby Awards and five other Webby nominations

Blue Waters Research LLC Senior Software Engineer

• Led the development of a fully custom e-commerce platform for self-service group buying
• Architected a dynamic, scalable infrastructure that was able to adapt to quickly changing business requirements.
• Worked with editorial and sales teams to develop a complex analytics platform to drive future sales and customer growth.

Yahoo Inc Web Developer

• Responsible for architecting, developing and maintaining several large scale, high traffic websites for Yahoo! Entertainment.
• Developed a cross-property content and photo management platform
• Lead Back-end developer for category leading celebrity news site omg.yahoo.com, serving over 500 million pages views a month
• Lead Developer & Architect for Yahoo’s Awards Platform, which provides a scalable, reusable framework for quickly developing awards show sites
• Member of the Yahoo! Media Tech Leads and Media Front-end Leadership organizations

Awards

• December 2008 “You Rock” award given monthly in recognition of exceptional work
• 2007 & 2008 nominated for Yahoo “Super Star” award

New York State Fair Web Developer

• Led development and implementation of a custom content management system

Awards

• 2003 Employee of the Year

Syracuse University at Utica College • 2003-2005 • Utica, NY

Nazareth College • 2001-2003 • Rochester, NY