PrizePicks Innovation & Technology Culture

Describe a project you’re especially eager to tackle in the new year.

Enabling the future of prediction markets is the project that keeps me up at night in the best way. This represents a completely new business line for PrizePicks, and my team, Pulse (Live Scoring and Data Platform), is the foundation that makes it possible. We need to unify data models across daily fantasy sports and prediction markets, build real-time stat calculation engines and support entirely new market types. The stakes are high, the timeline is aggressive, and we’re building the infrastructure that could define PrizePicks’ next chapter.

What technologies and/or practices is your team leveraging to tackle this project?

We’re building a comprehensive platform with standardized APIs, software development kits and self-service tooling that dramatically reduces integration time. We’re establishing API versioning standards to achieve zero breaking changes, which is crucial when you’re becoming the single source of truth. We’re also implementing comprehensive onboarding documentation, architecture guides and migration runbooks. The goal is to make Pulse so developer-friendly that product teams actively want to use it rather than build their own solutions.

How does this project tie into larger company goals?

PrizePicks’ strategy is to offer a best-in-class unified experience across daily fantasy sports and prediction markets that competitors can’t match. That requires a robust, unified data foundation, which is exactly what we’re building. When product teams can launch features in weeks instead of months, when customers experience perfect data consistency across all touchpoints, and when we can support niche sports and cross-sport experiences that differentiate us in the market, that’s how we build a competitive moat. The platform becomes strategic infrastructure that’s hard to replicate.