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Kevin leads product engineering for Antigravity, Google DeepMind’s agentic IDE. He has spent much of his career in AI, previously Head of Product Engineering at Windsurf and a Tech Lead Manager at Nuro, an autonomous vehicle startup. Kevin enjoys photography, playing basketball, cycling, and woodworking. He studied computer science & ML at Princeton University.
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Kevin Hou was Head of Product Engineering at Windsurf (one of the leading agentic IDEs) and, after joining Google DeepMind, led the launch of Google Antigravity, an agent-first IDE — giving him firsthand insight into shipping agent-first developer tools at two frontier efforts within a single year. His session offers product and engineering lessons from someone who has built leading agentic coding tools twice over.
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- Today, our team launched Google Antigravity · blog · Nov 2025
- Business Insider: Windsurf's head of product engineering says a successful software engineer is proficient in these 3 skill categories · blog · Jun 2025
- AI Engineer Summit NYC 2025: How Windsurf writes 90% of your code with an Agentic IDE · blog · Feb 2025
- Syntax Podcast: Windsurf forked VS Code to compete with Cursor. Talking the future of AI + Coding · blog · Jan 2025