Simon Ouderkirk is the Vice President of Product at Hydrolix, where he drives marketplace strategy and product growth for one of streaming’s most powerful data infrastructure platforms. With a career built at the intersection of product and large-scale content delivery, Simon led Disney’s DTC Distribution Fleet across 15 engineering teams — building out the company’s fully-owned global CDN and cutting annual CDN spend by nine figures. He was also the first product hire at dbt Labs, helping establish the product function at what became a unicorn company. Simon was recognized with the 2024 Disney Engineering Award for Excellence in Collaboration — the only non-software engineer to receive the honor.