CopilotKit is the Open Source Agentic Application Developer Framework: The easiest way to add AI copilots - intelligent, context-aware assistants - into your app.

As Head of Product, I lead our Product Strategy and Roadmap, including Developer and Customer Experience.

I joined DataStax in the summer of 2020 to lead the company's evolution towards delighting developers with our cloud products. I built and led a 29 person organization including Developer Relations, Developer Content, Developer Communities, Docs, and a team of go-to-developer Product Managers.

We took a data-driven approach to build a strong developer engine and organization, including:

* Adjunct open source projects to enable developers to adopt Apache Cassandra

* A PLG and developer nurture engine to attract and guide Astra developers to success

* Workshops that bring multiple hundreds of new developers to DataStax Astra DB each week

* Influencer and partner programs which bring new developer audiences to Astra

* A strong developer content engine pumping out and promoting developer oriented content

* Language idiomatic SDKs., samples, and libraries for specific developer languages

Starting in early 2022, I focused on improving the Developer Experience of DataStax Astra (DBaaS) and the Developer Surface around the product (SDKs, Language libraries, Plug-ins, Integrations, Sample apps, APIs). I led a team of Product Managers through the wholesale terraforming of the Astra UX, strong evolution of the developer APIs, beefing up DataStax' dedication to the Apache Cassandra™ community, and the creation of over 40 integrations with leading tools.

Astra DB is now on a dramatic growth path, and is leading DataStax revenue and account growth, augmenting and supplanting DataStax Enterprise.

I was lucky to be able to take six months off to travel with my family, and very lucky to have done this before Covid-19. See rae-grant.com for the travelogue.

Google’s Cloud business was growing rapidly, but running third in a market led by Amazon and Microsoft. As Lead PM for the Connect Pillar of Developer Products Group, I led the team (5 PMs, ~120 engineers) building a unifying workbench and data layer to cohere Google’s internal and external DevOps tools.

In early 2019, most of Connect was moved into Core Systems. I created the initial roadmap for what has become Workflow - the unifying “spine” of developer tools within Google.

As Lead PM for Google Play services, I worked with teams from 11 different Product Areas across Google (70 product teams, approximately 150 engineers) to deliver Google's proprietary layer on top of Android to more than 2billion Android devices all over the world. Google Play services contains the critical runtime for the Google APIs for Android (including the Auth API, Places API, and Google Sign-In) and shared features for users (including Google Settings, Android Auto, and Location services).