Fan engagement platform for high school sports streaming and ticketing
PlayOn operates a fan engagement platform anchored on live streaming, ticketing, and event management for high school athletics. The stack spans media production (CloudFront, Akamai, Fastly for CDN delivery), backend services (C#, PostgreSQL, AWS), and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), with active projects centered on computer vision stats pipelines and AI product expansion — indicating a shift from pure broadcast toward automated content intelligence and monetization infrastructure. Engineering-led hiring (7 of 16 recent roles) reflects the technical complexity of production rollouts and AI integration.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Engineering
PlayOn powers digital experiences for high school sports through two main surfaces: GoFan (ticketing and event management) and NFHS Network (streaming). The platform serves school administrators, athletic departments, and fans across the United States. The tech footprint reveals a media-grade infrastructure (CDN, streaming optimization, broadcast tooling like After Effects) paired with backend services for ticketing, user management, and content delivery. Current work focuses on scaling computer vision pipelines for automated game statistics, expanding AI capabilities across the product, and building monetization and pricing frameworks — suggesting a transition toward higher-margin, data-driven offerings beyond pure streaming.
PlayOn uses C#, PostgreSQL, and AWS for backend services, CloudFront/Akamai/Fastly for content delivery, Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration, and Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana for observability. Frontend relies on TypeScript/JavaScript; design tools include Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
Priority projects include computer vision stats pipeline production rollout, AI capability expansion across the product portfolio, stream quality improvements, and monetization infrastructure development including pricing and packaging frameworks.
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