Kunal
Vyas

Building the Analytical Foundation of a Sports Business

Architected and led the cloud-native platform underpinning an $80M sports analytics business. Built the data engineering organization from zero, growing to 15+ engineers and owning the full technical roadmap.

• Architected cloud-native data platform; reduced infra costs by 40% while enabling real-time analytics for 100+ stakeholders
• Pioneered LLM code generation workflow driving a 35% productivity gain — shipping 1–3 more features per quarter
• Reduced critical data processing latency from 2 weeks → 45 min via ETL automation; enabled same-day ad decisions for 80% of clients
• Replaced error-prone manual reporting with production-grade daily pipelines; 95% reduction in data inconsistencies
• Stewarded $1.25M engineering budget; reallocated 60% from legacy systems to AI/ML
• Led migration from monolithic to event-driven microservices (Kafka, Node.js); 10× throughput, $100K annual savings

Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation

• Led multi-year, 40+ application digital transformation roadmap in partnership with C-suite; migrated legacy on-prem to cloud-native
• Architected $15M tech stack modernization — replaced monolithic ERP with composable SaaS; 40% TCO reduction
• Led PoC initiatives for containers, serverless, and AI automation; accelerated team productivity by 25%

Real-Time Sports Intelligence at Scale

• Delivered real-time sports event capture platform processing live video with 90% accuracy, replacing 25+ FTE of manual tagging
• Architected multi-sport data normalization engine across football, basketball, baseball, and soccer; 60% less integration effort for new sports
• Mentored team to 3 internal promotions and 2 tech lead transitions within 18 months

API Platforms & High-Traffic Systems

• Optimized high-traffic benefits application handling 2M+ daily transactions; improved throughput 20% via Redis caching and query optimization
• Designed RESTful API platform with 50+ endpoints handling 10M+ requests/day
• Improved code quality scores 35%; reduced review cycles from 3 days to 8 hours

Fortune 500 Delivery & Architecture

• Led architects and business analysts across Fortune 500 client engagements from requirements through delivery
• Participated in RFP processes, estimations, and resource management for complex, multi-year projects
• Provided architectural recommendations, blueprints, proof of concepts, and roadmaps