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Jake Sohn
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Senior Software Engineer at FanDuel TV

Millions of viewers reachedFanDuel TV
Sports & Media
Los Angeles, CA

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer at FanDuel TV, I lead AI-first engineering across the broadcast technology team and own the cloud migration and real-time video infrastructure behind a nationally distributed, 24/7 live broadcast and streaming platform reaching millions of viewers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Led AI-first engineering practices, identifying and deploying LLM-powered automation for incident response, capacity planning, and content pipeline orchestration across the broadcast technology team
  • Deployed GenAI-powered code review tooling across 15+ repositories, integrating LLM capabilities into CI/CD pipelines with automated evaluation, safe rollout patterns, and quality guardrails
  • Owned end-to-end cloud migration of FanDuel TV's broadcast infrastructure to AWS, delivering elastic scaling and cost optimization for live production workloads serving millions of viewers
  • Architected production-grade AWS infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible, Python) across 10+ accounts with automated deployment pipelines, security scanning (Checkov, tfsec), and deployment ACLs
  • Implemented end-to-end observability using CloudWatch, establishing P1-tier monitoring, automated alerting, and incident response playbooks for a 24/7 live broadcast environment
  • Engineered real-time video transport using AWS MediaLive, MediaConnect, and CloudFront, supporting multi-region failover and multi-channel encoding with sub-millisecond timing precision

Technologies Used

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Python
  • Video & Streaming: AWS MediaLive, MediaConnect, CloudFront
  • Observability: CloudWatch, P1-tier monitoring & alerting
  • Security & Quality: Checkov, tfsec, GenAI-powered code review, CI/CD