Kevin Cristella

Product manager by day, developer at heart.

Personal projects, professional work, and notes on how I build things.

Personal projects

Cruise Outlook

  • Founder and developer of the only site which provides travelers a customized weather forecast for each port of call on their cruise in one consolidated chart, including weather for days at sea and other information about their trip.
  • Search-engine optimization has resulted in this site being the first result on major search engines for queries like "cruise weather", "cruise forecast", and "weather for my cruise".

Sgt David J. Smith

  • Pro bono website designed for a US Marine who was killed in action while serving in Afghanistan.
  • The site is built with Laravel and features a custom content management system that allows members of the non-profit to manage the site’s content. Additionally, an ordering system was developed for the annual golf tournament to accept payments via Stripe for registrations and sponsorships.

Professional work

Citibank ATM

  • Member of a small team at Critical Mass that redesigned the global ATM experience for Citibank.
  • Enhancements include quick access to balances, simplified screen flows for common transactions, and intelligence that remembers customer preferences.

Salesforce Implementation

  • Led a five year initiative at Home Box Office (HBO) to reimagine and rebuild several legacy homegrown applications in Salesforce.
  • The effort resulted in a significant reduction in support resources and the ability to more quickly and cost effectively deliver solutions which adapt to evolving business needs.

B2B Websites

  • Rearchitected and rebuilt two B2B websites for Home Box Office (HBO) using Eleventy.
  • The effort allowed for the retiring of a legacy homegrown application and the reassignment of two developer resources.

Sports Blackouts

  • Reverse engineered and rebuilt a legacy process at Warner Bros. Discovery as a Python CLI tool that determines what geographic regions to blackout as contractually obligated by various leagues.