Vercel Appoints Heads of Next.js and Agents
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-07-17
Vercel announced that two veterans in the developer tools space are joining the team: Pete Hunt will lead Frameworks and head up Next.js, while Nick Schrock will take charge of **Agentic Developer Experience**. The post highlights that Pete drove the early adoption of React for Instagram Web at Meta, while Nick is a co-inventor of GraphQL who solved data access and developer experience challenges at Facebook scale. These appointments are described as a major boost to Vercel's capabilities in both frameworks and agentic developer experience.
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