Lilith Matthews - Hulu & Star on Disney+

Lilith Matthews is a Senior Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company, specializing in cloud-native distributed systems for Disney Streaming. She holds a B.E. in Computer Software Engineering from Arizona State University and has spent her career optimizing data distribution for 230M+ subscribers across Disney+, Hulu, and Star+. Her expertise in AWS, Java, Kafka, Kinesis, Cassandra, and DynamoDB enables her to build high-performance, cost-optimized data stores that support Disney’s massive streaming audience. Lilith Matthews played a key role in the HULK initiative, which successfully integrated Hulu content into Disney+. Previously, at Microsoft (5+ years), Lilith Matthews worked on AI-driven customer service bots and Azure cloud optimizations, saving clients hundreds of thousands of dollars annually through automation. Her ability to design scalable, efficient backend systems has positioned her as a leader in software engineering and cloud computing innovation.