Brent Barkman

Brent Barkman is VP of Product, Core Experiences and Engineering Products at Miro, where he leads teams shaping how to get and keep people in the flow of work — from Spaces and Search to Notifications, Communications, the overall Design System, and even agentic coding. Before joining Miro, Brent was at Atlassian, where he helped launch Focus and worked on strategic initiatives. Prior to that, he founded KATA, a startup reimagining how engineering teams work together.

Brent's passion for understanding how organizations work at scale began at IBM, grew at Amazon during the early days of Prime Video, and intensified during his six years at Snapchat, where he was part of the journey from 150 to 4,000 people and from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of daily users. A self-described "work about work nerd," Brent brings a product leader's perspective shaped by both the chaos of hypergrowth and the discipline of building for the long term.

He's based in Denver, Colorado, where he lives with his wife Sallie and remains convinced that yellow is the best brand color.