LIVE OPS • STREAMING • AI/ML

TANUJ KUMBHAR

Streaming ops + software engineer translating signal chaos into smooth broadcasts, automation, and ML copilots for product, exec, and fan teams.

99.5% Live Uptime
30%+ Faster VOD
40% Quicker Signal Reads
Launch Rooms
Calm Control

Now guiding NBA/G-League/WNBA streams across every screen with distributed incident command.

Automation Lab
Live-to-VOD Flow

Python + FastAPI bots compress prep, ingest, and QA so ops teams ship 30% faster.

Ops × ML
Trusty Copilots

Credit, fraud, and telemetry models wired into dashboards for real action, not slides.

Reliability Automation Applied ML Cloud Incident Command
LinkedIn GitHub
Resume-ready, metrics-first storytelling with references available on request.
uptime
99.5%
Live event reliability
automation lift
+30%
Live-to-VOD throughput
launch support
15+
Major releases verified
“Tanuj turned our war room into a calm cockpit.” — internal launch lead
Zero-drama live events Automation-first rituals NBA Digital Operations Centre Incident dashboards Ops + AI bridge Story-driven QA
Story mode

Ops written like a pastel case study

Three acts that mirror live production: stability, systems, intelligence.

Chapter 01 · Arena

I build calm before tip-off: rehearsal checklists, device matrices, escalation trees, and empathy for the fan on the couch.

Live Ops Incident Command QA

Chapter 02 · Engine Room

Automation + dashboards + runbooks that keep support feeling like a conveyor belt instead of a fire drill.

Python FastAPI React Observability

Chapter 03 · Intelligence

Applied ML for credit, fraud, and ops copilots. Every model ships with explainability notes and UI hooks.

Applied ML Explainable AI Security
Experience

Resume-ready bulletproofing

Platforms: iOS • Android • Web • Roku • Consoles • Vision Pro • Smart TVs

NBA — Digital Operations Centre
Tech Ops Engineer
Mar 2024 → Present

Own live/VOD readiness, telemetry, launch rooms, QA, automation, and crisis coaching for millions of fans.

  • Drove >99.5% live uptime by codifying pre-flight rituals across 9 device families.
  • Built FastAPI + React dashboards surfacing CDN/encoding anomalies 40% faster.
  • Automated Live-to-VOD flows for +30% throughput and fewer manual hand-offs.
  • Validated 15+ roadmap releases; aligned QA sign-offs with exec comms.
  • Mentored ops analysts on incident triage, Charles/Wireshark workflows.
Ace Global Solutions
Web Developer
Sep 2021 → Feb 2024

Delivered CRM portals, responsive sites, and automation for sales and finance teams.

  • Shipped React/PHP dashboards powering daily account management.
  • Instituted peer reviews + QA templates reducing regressions release-over-release.
  • Coached non-technical stakeholders through hand-offs and adoption.
Skill candy cloud

Drag, swirl, discover the stack

Technical clusters spanning ops, code, data, and storytelling.

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Ops & Streaming

Live/VOD orchestration HLS • DASH CDN tuning Charles • Wireshark Incident coaching

Engineering

Python • FastAPI Flask • Django Node.js React • Next.js TypeScript

Data & ML

Applied ML Gradient Boosting Random Forest Explainability Credit & Fraud

Cloud & DevOps

AWS • Azure Docker • Kubernetes PostgreSQL • MongoDB GitOps Observability

Mobile & Creative

Flutter Swift Three.js HTML5 • CSS3 Figma

Tooling & Process

Firebase • Postman JIRA • Agile SCTE workflows VS Code QA templates
Projects

Systems with receipts

Each project framed as problem → system → measurable lift.

ML + Full-Stack

Credit Line Platform

Decisioning service computing credit score & limits with explainable tooling for analysts.

Flask Python MongoDB Explainability
Security

AI Fraud & Phishing Radar

Notebook-to-service pipeline that flags phishing spikes and feeds dashboards.

Python ML Risk Signals
Applied ML

CloudPital

Random Forest + Gradient Boosting for symptom-based disease prediction (96% accuracy).

Random Forest Gradient Boosting Web App
Production

Tathaastu Matrimonial

End-to-end platform for real families including onboarding, matching, moderation.

PHP React MySQL Deployment
Research & publications

Peer-reviewed + conference-tested experiments

Work that bridges applied ML, credit inclusion, healthcare, and fraud resilience.

IJREAM • Dec 2024

CloudPital — Disease Prediction Application

Random Forest + Gradient Boosting web app predicting illnesses from symptom vectors with 96%+ accuracy and explainability handoffs.

Healthcare ML Python Publication
ICICI Conference • Jun 2024

AI-Driven Credit Scoring & Credit Line System

Designed a transparent credit engine using Random Forest + XAI notes so underserved borrowers and auditors understand each approval.

Explainable AI Credit Inclusion Conference
Security Lab • 2023

AI Fraud & Phishing Radar

Built a phishing/fraud classifier (Python + PHP delivery) to flag malicious sites, feeding dashboards used in hackathon and ops drills.

Security ML Ops Streaming Safety
Certifications

Continuous learning receipts

Industry credentials backing up the ops + engineering mash-up.

Google

Foundations of Project Management

Apr 2025
Amazon

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

2024
NVIDIA

AI Infrastructure & Operations Fundamentals

2024
Udemy

Machine Learning A-Z: AI, Python & R

2023
Udemy

Professional Certificate in Java Programming

2022
Udemy

PHP with MySQL

2021
MindLuster

Elm Programming Language

2021
Udemy

Embedded Systems & Microcontrollers

2021
Leadership & community

Energy beyond the console

Teams should feel like festivals. These roles prove it.

Student Council Leadership

FR.CRCE

Webmaster (2021–22): +70% engagement via bold campaigns. Design Head (2022–23): Directed creative squads, timelines, budgets.

Smart India Hackathon

Competition

Credit risk platform pitched under pressure; proved that ML + storytelling beats slides.

Playground

Interactive vibe-check

Shuffle quick wins or drop confetti. This is where ops rigor meets Planetoño mischief.

NBA live-room calm mode unlocked ✦
Fun & cool stuff

Ops brain, candy soul

Signals that explain why I stay calm when streams get spicy.

🔍

Latency Detective

Logs are clues, metrics are plot twists, resolution is inevitable.

📊

Dashboard Narrator

Each widget tells a story so execs catch context within seconds.

🌙

3AM Calm Mode

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Panic is the true outage.

🎮

Gamer Reflex

Years of clutch teamwork = instinctive signal triage.

Espresso Deploys

Double shot = one bug bash or automation snippet.

🚀

Space Daydreamer

Future streaming happens off-planet; planning starts now.

Ready to build resilient magic?

Ping me for live ops, automation, or ML projects that deserve pastel storytelling and serious rigor.

Tech Ops • Streaming • Automation • Applied ML • Story-driven dashboards