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Malte Ubl

CTO, Vercel

Malte Ubl is CTO of Vercel, the frontend cloud behind Next.js, v0 and the AI SDK. In August 2026 he shipped Agent Plugins, an open specification for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers that Vercel built with a steering committee including AWS, Cursor, Microsoft and OpenAI. Before Vercel he created AMP at Google, making this his second vendor-led open standard. He is watching his own customer change species: Vercel says more than half of its deploys are now made by agents, up from under three percent six months earlier.