Linda Varanko
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Alexi Varanko is the Vice President of Cloud & Data Transformation Engineering, for the Walt Disney Company. His primary responsibility is to transform the way Disney uses technology to engage customers, support employees, and enable innovation and operation of Disney Experiences across the company (Theme Parks & Resorts, Broadcast Media, Studio, Consumer Products and Interactive Media.) He also leads the Enterprise Cloud Program which was created to accelerate the implementation and adoption of Cloud servi
As the executive sponsor of the Jedi Engineering Training Academy (JETA); he has helped set a vision for the community to curate and develop an internal training program. JETA consists of internal talks from internal teams, notable technology leaders from across the industry, and internal conferences. These talks are held 2-4 times a month across the country and streamed for the rest of the company.
His early experience at Disney included work at Walt Disney Studios where he was instrumental in reinventing the direct-to-consumer experience by helping to build and launch Disney Movies Anywhere — which then evolved into Movies Anywhere . He managed movie production support on-set for Disney live actions films, post-production and sound engineering support on the studio lot for Disney theatrical releases and the underlying infrastructure and systems that support the studio's operations.
Linda Varanko