Jason Pelzer is a seasoned technology executive with 25+ years of hands-on engineering and 13 years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as SVP Core Services at Paramount+ in New York. He has a strong track record scaling streaming and media platforms through progressive leadership at Showtime and Paramount+, and earlier technical architect and VP engineering roles across startups and music/media companies. Jason combines deep systems-level experience—designing resilient, event-driven backends and deploying highly available services on cloud infrastructure—with product-focused delivery and team-building across distributed, multi-site organizations. Notably, he personally coded and launched NearVerse’s realtime proximity backend, demonstrating a willingness to dive into implementation while leading at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who balances architecture, operational reliability, and hiring/mentorship to accelerate growth in high-traffic consumer platforms.
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