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On 2026-07-17 Guillermo Rauch announced Pete Hunt (@floydophone) has joined…

2026-07-17 · 06:32 UTC ·@swyx ·1 min read

Brief

Guillermo Rauch announced on 2026-07-17 that Vercel has hired Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock. Hunt, a React pioneer at Meta who led Instagram Web adoption, will run Frameworks and lead Next.js. Schrock, co‑inventor of GraphQL, will work on Agentic Developer Experience to enable the 'next billion agents' and 'self‑improving software.' Rauch called the moment a dream and said they're hiring with open DMs.

Why it matters

On 2026-07-17 Guillermo Rauch announced Pete Hunt (@floydophone) has joined Vercel to run Frameworks and lead Next.js; Hunt is described as an early React pioneer at Meta who powered Instagram Web adoption.

Key details

  • Nick Schrock (@schrockn), co‑inventor of GraphQL, joined Vercel to work on 'Agentic Developer Experience' aiming to enable the 'next billion agents' and build 'self‑improving software.'
  • Rauch framed the hires as a major moment ('HOLY FUCKING SHIT the react avengers have assembled'), called it a dream for a founder, and noted Vercel is hiring with the new hires' DMs open for applications or bug reports.
Source evidence

HOLY FUCKING SHIT the react avengers have assembled

Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg)

I’m excited to welcome two legends of developer tools, Pete Hunt (@floydophone) and Nick Schrock (@schrockn), to Vercel.

Pete was one of the pioneers of @reactjs at Meta. He made an early bet to power Instagram Web with ⚛️ React, evangelizing it internally and externally. He will be running Frameworks and leading @nextjs. I couldn’t imagine a better person to lead React’s most popular framework to even greater heights.

Nick co-invented @graphql, solving some of the gnarliest data infrastructure and access issues at Facebook scale, with a delightful developer experience. He will be working on Agentic Developer Experience, solving the problem of enabling the next billion agents and leading the way to a future of self-improving software.

It’s a dream-come-true for a founder of a startup to welcome engineering minds of this caliber who are also wonderful humans. You probably want to work with them, and they’re hiring 😁. Their DMs are open, from job applications to bug reports!

— https://nitter.net/rauchg/status/2077870043833229692#m