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Antonio AKins

Technology Transformation & Modernization

About Me

I am a senior technology executive with nearly 30 years of experience leading engineering organizations, technology transformation, and modernization initiatives. Over a career with roles at Salesforce and Microsoft, I have consistently led through major technology shifts, including mobile, cloud, low-code platforms, and emerging agentic AI. I most recently led a globally distributed organization of 500 engineers responsible for the Salesforce UI development platform and Lightning Experience architecture. My organization drove key innovations, including Agentforce for Developers, Agentforce for Setup, the Agentic Experience Layer, Lightning Web Components, and Lightning App Builder. I owned a portfolio with scale at billions and trillions of monthly transactions. I'm known for combining operational excellence, transformational technology leadership, and incubating advanced research initiatives that translate to strategic product direction.

Jurisdiction

United States | Canada

Notable Employer

  • Senior Vice President, Engineering at Salesforce
  • Vice President, Engineering at Salesforce
  • Senior Director, Engineering at Salesforce
  • Various Leadership Roles at Microsoft

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Senior Vice President, EngineeringNotableSalesforce
2021 - 2026

Lead engineering strategy and execution for the Salesforce UI development platform, including Lightning Web Components, Lightning Experience, developer tooling, low-code and pro-code app development, and enterprise UI infrastructure. • Launched major AI-enabled innovations, including Agentforce for Developers, Agentforce for Setup, and the Agentic Experience Layer, transforming experiences from fixed UI paradigms to dynamically generated agentic and conversational experiences. • Led the organization’s AI transformation strategy, integrating AI-driven experiences directly into our products and throughout our SDLC. Page 3 • Sponsored a pipeline of advanced research and incubation initiatives that repeatedly accelerated emerging investments into strategic product directions that shipped to customers. • Introduced React and other modern developer tooling integrations within Salesforce, significantly expanding ecosystem interoperability for developers. • Led a multi-year company-wide performance transformation for Lightning Experience that delivered approximately a 40% reduction in page load times.

Vice President, EngineeringNotableSalesforce
2015 - 2021

Led engineering organizations responsible for helping drive Salesforce’s transition to modern low-code application development, enabling customers to rapidly build, customize, and automate enterprise business applications. The portfolio included Lightning App Builder, Flow, Process Builder, and Workflow/Approvals.

Senior Director, EngineeringNotableSalesforce
2011 - 2015

Recruited to help lead Salesforce’s Mobile-first transition. Defined and implemented many of the standard mobile-first software delivery practices still in use across the company. Helped shepherd the growth of Salesforce’s original India acquisition into a major engineering site supporting R&D efforts across the company.

Various Leadership RolesNotableMicrosoft
1997 - 2011

Various Engineering leadership roles, most notably leading delivery for Bing/MSN Mobile across Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, iOS, and mobile web platforms during Microsoft’s early mobile platform expansion. I held other leadership and engineering roles across Office, Visual Studio .NET, and Windows Mobile during my time at Microsoft.

Education

Degree of Computer ScienceVanderbilt University
1992 - 1997
Masters of MBACornell University
2007 - 2009

Skills

Core skills10
Interests3
Languages1

Skills

Saas
Cloud Computing
APIs
AI/LLMs/Vibe Coding
Performance & Scale
Web Development
Technology Operations & SDLC
Tech & Culture Transformations
People Leadership
Leading Global Organizations

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Mentoring
Efficiency & Productivity

Languages

English