Tom Occhino

Tom Occhino serves as Chief Product Officer at Vercel, where he leads engineering, product, and design. Tasked with shaping the company's product and engineering direction, he oversees the teams responsible for Vercel's developer platform. His purview spans the full stack of the company's offering, from core infrastructure to the design of its developer-facing tools. The role places him at the center of Vercel's push to become a leading platform for AI-native web development.

At Vercel, Tom drives the company's AI product strategy, serving as a public face of initiatives like v0, the company's AI-powered interface generation tool. He brings this perspective from more than 12 years at Facebook and Meta, where he worked on React and React Native and played a key role in the decision to open-source React, specializing in building developer tools and frameworks adopted at a global scale. He studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo and is based in San Francisco.