Brian Howard is VP of Product for Platform at Snyk, where he's helping rebuild the application security platform for an agentic era. As AI agents become the default way software gets written, the security foundation underneath them has to change just as fast. Brian's focus is the connective tissue that makes that possible — identity, findings, policy, attestation, metering, and the APIs and interfaces agents actually call — so security keeps pace as detection and remediation shift from human-driven to autonomous.

His thesis: in a world of machine-scale code generation, the most valuable thing a security platform offers isn't another dashboard — it's an authoritative, deterministic source of record that agents can trust and act on.

Before Snyk, Brian held product and engineering leadership roles at Akamai, Google, and Dynatrace, spanning developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and observability at scale.