MOHIT SHRIVASTAVAtechnology leader · builder · operatormohit@portfolio ~/career↓ download-cvFor newsrooms, publishers and content businesses where traffic, search visibility, editorial speed, ad behavior and cloud cost all matter at the same time.
This is my sharpest current fit. As Head of IT at Free Malaysia Today I own a national news platform end to end — frontend, CMS, database, CDN, video and the operations underneath — serving 8.5M monthly active users. Media platforms are unforgiving: a slow page or a missing section during a breaking story isn't a bug ticket, it's lost reach and lost revenue, live.
The work that defines this lane: recovering FMT from an SEO and stability crisis as organic share grew from 40% to 68%, Lifestyle page views rose 184%, and load times fell from 4.2s to 1.3s; leading delivery of a CMS-decoupled GraphQL gateway that took article reads from ~700ms to under 10ms; and a YouTube-native video CMS running 33K+ videos and 2M+ daily views for RM0 a month. All while cutting the cloud bill by ~75%.
What makes media different is that the platform serves two masters — readers and the newsroom. I've learned to make Google's crawlers, the cache layer, the database and a round-the-clock newsroom all work as one system, and to explain every technical decision in terms of reach and revenue.
When I took the platform on, the mandate was survival — stop the decline, keep the site standing. The side effect of a healthy platform was growth: more reach, more active users, more page views, at a fraction of the cost. The result is a number the business understands: in an industry where a profitable year means 2–4%, Free Malaysia Today closed 2025 at ~22% profit.
If the traffic, the speed or the cloud bill is going the wrong way — I've already fixed all three, at national scale, at the same time.