Summary
George Holt is a hands-on engineering and product leader with 25 years of experience building developer tools, internal platforms, and high-performing teams at Snowflake, Amazon, and Microsoft. He combines deep technical chops—leading Bazel migrations, distributed build decisions, and launching LLM-powered CodeWhisperer—with product instincts that drove AWS IDE Toolkits to 200K monthly users. Known for taking full ownership from strategy to customer validation, he aligns roadmaps with measurable business outcomes and cut time-to-market through cross-team unification. A coach and mentor who scales sustainably (low attrition across a ~30‑engineer org), he also has a knack for finding cost savings and pragmatic engineering trade-offs that save millions. Based in Seattle, he’s now applying that blend of engineering, product, and commercial thinking to friction‑free micropayments for journalism at Subly.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Music Performance, Computer Science and Music Performance at Olympic College