Brian Holt

Product Manager

Sacramento, California, United States15 yrs 8 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in enhancing developer experience across platforms.
  • Led product initiatives for top tech companies.
  • Instructor with extensive reach in web development education.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on Developer Experience and Product Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementDeveloper ExperienceProduct StrategyCommunity EngagementSoftware EngineeringInfrastructureUi DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentBackend Development

Other Skills

AI ToolsIntegrationAI InfrastructureAPIsSDK DevelopmentProduct DesignMarketingDeveloper RelationsData AppsSocial SharingDeveloper ToolsSDKsAPI IntegrationNode.jsJavaScript

About

Product leader at the frontier of AI agents and developer experience. I ship tools that make developers choose your platform—through great DX and by giving AI coding tools superpowers. Before product, I spent a decade as an engineer shipping code at Netflix, Reddit, and LinkedIn, which means I build for developers because I am one. Most recently Staff Product Manager at Databricks, focused on developer infrastructure and AI products. Previously led product at Neon (acquired by Databricks), Snowflake/Streamlit, Stripe, and Microsoft Azure—giving me deep experience across the data and developer tools landscape. I also teach courses on Frontend Masters covering React, databases, Linux, and web development fundamentals—people have watched my content for over 100 person-years. When I'm not thinking about agents and APIs, you can find me snowboarding or following Cagliari Calcio, where I'm a part owner.

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Databricks

Staff Product Manager

Jun 2025Jan 2026 · 7 mos · Sacramento, CA

  • Leading developer experience for Databricks Apps, with a focus on making Databricks the obvious choice for developers through excellent tooling and by building infrastructure that makes AI code generation tools like v0, Copilot, Cursor, and Replit work better. Also overseeing the integration of Neon developer services into the Databricks ecosystem following the acquisition in addition to what I was already working on for Neon.
Developer ExperienceAI ToolsInfrastructureProduct Management

Neon

Staff Product Manager (acquired by Databricks)

Jul 2024Jun 2025 · 11 mos · Sacramento, CA

  • Product leader for AI agentic infrastructure, developer experience, and partnerships. Built the products and integrations that powered AI platforms like Replit and Vercel to run on Neon's serverless Postgres. Shipped authentication, SDKs, and APIs to help developers build faster on Postgres without infrastructure overhead.
AI InfrastructureDeveloper ExperienceAPIsProduct Management

Sqlite cloud, inc.

VP of Product

Mar 2024Jul 2024 · 4 mos · Seattle, WA

  • Took a 0-to-1 product to market, owning product, design, marketing, and developer relations. Designed the core product, pricing strategy, and go-to-market motion for developers running SQLite at scale for AI and transactional workloads.
Product DesignMarketingDeveloper RelationsProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Snowflake

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2023Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bellevue, WA

  • I am the product manage of Streamlit Community Cloud, a platform for data scientists to be able to share their data apps with each other. It is a wonderful mix of working on data apps, developer experience, and social sharing. I get to work with a very broad mix of designers, developers, product managers, data scientists as we make Snowflake the premier place for data scientists and developers to share amazing stories via data visualizations.
Data AppsCommunity EngagementSocial SharingProduct ManagementDeveloper Experience

Stripe

Product Manager

Jun 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Seattle, WA

  • Developer tools and developer experience product manager. The current product manager for Stripe server SDKs, the React Native SDK, the Stripe CLI, the Stripe Visual Studio Code extension, the Stripe Shell, the Stripe API upgrading experience, and other tools that relate to how developer integrate Stripe. In addition to my product areas, I contribute broadly to larger Stripe initiatives and leverage my previous experience as a PM and as an engineer to ensure that Stripe continues shipping the gold standard of developer experience.
Developer ToolsSDKsAPI IntegrationProduct ManagementDeveloper Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Program Manager

Aug 2020Jun 2021 · 10 mos

  • Drive cross organization initiatives to improve the developer experience across Azure with a focus on Node.js and JavaScript. Make Visual Studio Code the best code editor out there and help make it the tool people choose to write code and manage their Azure infrastructure. Innovate on process to drive good developer experiences and help share that process across the rest of Microsoft.
Developer ExperienceNode.jsJavaScriptProduct Management

Senior Program Manager

Mar 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Senior program manager over Visual Studio Code, Node.js on Azure, and Azure SDKs. My job to make working with JavaScript on Azure a world class developer experience and to make Visual Studio Code the best editor that developers want to work with.
JavaScriptNode.jsAzure SDKsProduct ManagementDeveloper Experience

Senior Cloud Developer Advocate

Jan 2018Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • My job is to meet developers where they are and demonstrate to them the value that Microsoft Azure can have for them.
  • This takes many forms: speaking at conferences across the world, writing technical documentation, contributing to open source, filming short videos, etc.
Developer AdvocacyTechnical DocumentationOpen SourceDeveloper ExperienceCommunity Engagement

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2017Jan 2018 · 7 mos

  • A member of LinkedIn's technical core team for supporting infrastructure for LinkedIn Learning and Lynda. Worked on integrating Azure Active Directory with LinkedIn, migrating from on-premise infra to Azure, supported a large frontend application, mentored newer engineers, and consulted with other teams on how to improve web performance and scalability across all of LinkedIn Engineering.
Infrastructure SupportWeb PerformanceScalabilitySoftware EngineeringInfrastructure

Netflix

Senior UI Engineer

Apr 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Los Gatos, California

  • Architect the user interface platform, written in React and Redux
  • Maintain the Node.js “middle-end” server which serves all Netflix client-facing requests
  • Maintain own APIs in Groovy
  • Extensively A/B test the user interface to refine the user experience
  • Conduct internal trainings to teach React, ES6 and computer science to Netflix teams
  • Lead projects and conduct hiring interviews
UI ArchitectureReactReduxSoftware EngineeringUI Development

Reddit, inc.

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

Aug 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, CA

  • Rewrote Reddit marketplace (now defunct) front end in Angular and then React
  • Helped rewrite backend in Python, Django, MySQL
  • Co-wrote new mobile website, m.reddit.com in Node.js
  • Hired and led an e-commerce frontend team of four people
Frontend DevelopmentAngularPythonSoftware Engineering

Needle

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2013Aug 2013 · 6 mos · Bluffdale, UT

  • Wrote and maintained a high-performance, embeddable chat client for e-commerce, written without framework due to performance and file size restrictions
  • Wrote a contractor portal interface with data visualizations, written in Angular
  • Wrote a bit of Python to create own APIs for data visualization
High-Performance DevelopmentData VisualizationAngularSoftware EngineeringFrontend Development

Deseret digital media

Web Developer

Aug 2011Feb 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Salt Lake City, UT

  • Wrote mainly PHP, mostly without a framework (some Zend Framework 1)
  • Migrated much of the code from PHP 4 to PHP 5
  • Wrote a multi-threaded car data feed importer that normalized and saved data to a MongoDB database and Solr in PHP
  • Wrote a naïve Bayesian classifier to identify spam classifieds posts in PHP
PHPMongoDBSolrSoftware EngineeringBackend Development

Nu skin enterprises

Computer Programming Intern

Jun 2011Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Provo, Utah

  • Wrote mainly PHP and MySQL
  • Created a non-techincal friendly interface to Nagios XL, a datacenter health monitoring system
  • Incorporated Google Maps, Google Earth, and Microsoft Kinect into the system
PHPMySQLSoftware EngineeringBackend Development

Brigham young university

2 roles

Computer Science 142 & 235 TA – Doctor Burton's Lab

Aug 2010Dec 2010 · 4 mos

  • Help students with their Java programming assignments, create and correct exams, hold office hours,

Research Assistant - Doctor Crandall's Lab

Sep 2009Aug 2010 · 11 mos

  • conducted phylogenetic research for Dr. Keith Crandall on Brachyuran crabs, programmed data conversion program, presented research at Evolution 2010 conference in Portland, OR

Education

Seattle University

Leadership Executive MBA

Aug 2022Jun 2024

Brigham Young University

Bachelor of Science (Incomplete) — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2011

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