Peter Azuolas
Chief Technology Officer · Founding Partner · Systems Architect
Las Vegas, NV · (240) 446-3000 · [email protected] · LinkedIn · GitHub
Executive Profile
Technology executive and three-time venture-backed founder who sets engineering strategy and writes the core architecture personally. Builds large-scale streaming, real-time data, and high-availability platforms across sports betting, digital media, and interactive entertainment, then converts the hard engineering into a defensible patent portfolio that competitors must license or litigate.
Operates as fluently in IP strategy, board engagement, and gaming compliance as in code, maintaining technology-supplier licensing in legal U.S. sports-betting jurisdictions. Equally credible briefing a board, a patent litigator, or a 2 a.m. on-call channel, and known for translating strategy into shipped product.
Signature Achievements
- Founded and scaled three venture-backed companies supporting roughly $20M in funding; personally authored the technology due-diligence materials and presented the stack directly to investors and the board.
- Architected the patented low-latency streaming core now foundational to the modern Watch & Bet market, deployed across ~30 partner organizations including DraftKings, USA Today, the WNBA/WNBPA, and NFLPA.
- Led a 15-person engineering organization on a $2–3M annual technology budget, delivering one unified product across web, mobile, and OTT and mentoring multiple engineers into team-lead roles.
- Built backend infrastructure processing 4+ billion monthly events at 99.97% uptime on a lean operating budget, engineered to absorb 20x viral bursts without degradation.
- Technical Lead / First-named inventor on 8 granted U.S. patents spanning streaming synchronization, interactive engagement, and real-time data, with multiple pending continuations.
- Serves as lead technical principal in PANDA's patent-infringement and antitrust litigation against Sportradar and Genius Sports in the Eastern District of Texas.
Experience
PANDA Interactive — CTO & Founding Partner · 2019–Present
- Co-founded and scaled an enterprise interactive-streaming platform adopted across ~30 partner organizations including DraftKings, USA Today, NFLPA, and the WNBA, owning architecture and engineering strategy while serving on the board.
- Architected SocketVision, a patented engine that synchronizes real-time odds and overlays with live video without modifying the underlying stream, shifting delivery from minute-stale polling to sub-second push and cutting delivery costs an estimated 10–20x at scale.
- Drove measurable client outcomes, including helping an independent basketball league grow from zero to 20,000+ paying viewers and delivering a 6.02% click-through rate to advertisers for USA Today across 4.76M views.
- Built a 15-person multidisciplinary organization shipping across web, iOS, Android, and OTT on one architecture, and sustained market access via technology-supplier licenses across legal U.S. sports-betting jurisdictions including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, and West Virginia.
SportsCastr — CTO & Founding Partner · 2016–2019
- Raised ~$15M across the company's life and built the technology for a live sports-commentary streaming platform that hit 250,000 peak simultaneous viewers and generated 2,000+ hours of content weekly across ~10,000 registered creators, backed by the late NBA Commissioner David Stern, the NFLPA, and Intel.
- Established the company's foundational patent portfolio (now PANDA Interactive) by engineering low-latency streaming with sub-second viewer latency synchronized across all broadcasters and viewers.
- Delivered marquee partnerships including WNBA multi-commentator broadcasts, Nippon Professional Baseball US streaming, and DraftKings watch-along experiences.
SportsBlog.com — CTO & Founding Partner · 2012–2016
- Scaled the largest open sports-blogging platform on the internet to roughly 8M readers per month (backed by ~$5M in funding) by personally writing a backend processing 4+ billion requests per month at 99.97% uptime.
- Sustained massive UGC traffic on a minimal budget by balancing a vast cold long-tail archive against viral spikes, serving 100M+ monthly ad impressions across ~1M accounts and averaging 26% month-over-month growth over four years.
School of the Legends (SOTL) — Interim CTO · 2012–2013
- Stabilized and restored a troubled rebuild of the NFLPA/NFLRPA-licensed social network for current and former NFL players, returning it to a usable, valuable property leading to successful adoption and participation by players.
BrandLab — Lead Developer · Early Career
- Turned vague concepts into shipped products at a domain-industry incubator focused on portfolio monetization and rapid MVP development; earlier, launched the first SaaS for cryptocurrency miners in the early days of Bitcoin.
Patents & IP
Technical Lead / First-named inventor on 8 granted U.S. patents and multiple pending continuations covering low-latency streaming, real-time synchronization, and interactive sports-betting technologies (the SocketVision family, 2019–2026). I personally authored the technical descriptions, edited the claims, and created the system diagrams for every filing.
As lead technical principal, I serve in PANDA's patent-infringement and antitrust litigation against Sportradar and Genius Sports in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, asserting willful infringement of foundational interactive-streaming and sports-betting patents.
Toolkit
Languages
Node.js · JavaScript/TypeScript · PHP · Python · Perl · C · Java
Frameworks
React · React Native · Astro (SSG & SSR) · Next.js
Cloud & Infra
AWS · Linux · Nginx · Cloudflare
Streaming & Real-time
WebSocket/socket servers · real-time data normalization · HLS/RTMP/WebRTC · FFmpeg · interactive overlays & synchronization
Data
MySQL · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · Redis · data warehousing
Tooling
Git · CI/CD
Mobile & OTT
iOS · Android · Apple TV · Android TV
AI / ML
Custom AI/ML model integration · deep learning · Vision AI · generative image pipelines
Education & Authorization
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa — B.S. in Computer Science, magna cum laude (2008).
Languages: English (native) · Lithuanian (intermediate) · French (reading proficiency).
Authorization: U.S. citizen with EU citizenship (Lithuanian passport); authorized to work in the U.S. and across the EU/EEA without sponsorship.