Company
Date Published
Author
Claire Speedy
Word count
1435
Language
English
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None

Summary

Skyscanner, a leading travel company, has a highly successful mobile app with over 2.2 million monthly downloads and a 4.7/5 rating on both the App Store and Google Play. The app's success is measured by revenue, with the goal of driving traffic and converting it into revenue. Skyscanner uses internal metrics such as user journey and experience to track its mobile app's performance. The company has a large engineering team, with over 700 people working in engineering and 40+ dedicated to mobile DevOps. Skyscanner's Mobile DevOps Summit 2023 session will discuss implementing effective Mobile DevEx at scale, with a focus on scaling engineering in the hybrid-remote world. The company has been using Bitrise for its mobile app development since early 2021, which has helped accelerate its app's success by providing a stable CI/CD platform and supporting engineers. Michael Tweed, Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner, will be speaking at the summit and shares his insights on mobile DevEx, engineering culture, and scaling DevEx tooling across distributed teams.