Arguably one of the first travel agents to ever be established, Thomas Cook was a global travel company with 97 aircraft, 2,926 stores, 32,722 employees, and serving over 19.1 million annual holiday-goers. During our first engagement with Thomas Cook in 2015, YLD was asked to up-skill 16 developers transitioning from a Java background to Node.js and to move to a different architecture that enables rapid iteration and innovation. While helping Thomas Cook reduce the gap between solutions available on the market and what they need to deliver a better customer-facing experience.

By up-skilling 16 of Thomas Cook’s developers, YLD were able to help them actualise the interface needed to provide a better, unique customer-facing experience. Over the course of two months, five YLD experts based on-site delivered a training process focussed on pair programming and load testing to ensure the client could handle the peak-season load, coupled with intensive advanced JavaScript and Node.js workshops, while amending the previous training attempts undertaken by Thomas Cook’s developers to introduce best practices.