Addy Osmani

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San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Leader in Chrome Developer Experience at Google.
Authored multiple best-selling technical books.
Expert in AI and web performance optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in web development and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Technical ArchitectureScalabilityProblem SolvingTechnical Solution DesignJavascriptTeam Management

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsAngularJSApplication ArchitectureApplication FrameworksB2CBackbone.jsBusiness-to-Business (B2B)C++CSSChatbotsChrome Developer ToolsCoachingCommunicationComplexity ManagementComputer Engineering

About

Addy Osmani is an engineering leader working on Google Chrome. He is the Head of Developer Experience focused on making the web delightful and low-friction for developers to build on. Follow for motivation, productivity and engineering.

Experience

Google

3 roles

Head of Chrome Developer Experience

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Leading Chrome's global engineering teams focused on activating the best of quality web applications through developers at scale. Our teams work on reducing the friction to test, debug and optimize web applications in the developer's preferred web technology and tooling stack. Portfolio includes products reaching 40M developers serving a Chrome audience of 3B+ users.
My AI specific projects have included: Contributing to Gemini model improvements for coding, Gemini (AI Assistance) in Chrome DevTools across 5 different product launches and Gemini rollouts across multiple developer surfaces in Google Labs.

ScalabilityMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product DevelopmentTeam ManagementTechnical Architecture+37

Head of Chrome Developer Insights

Sep 2016 – Dec 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Engineering manager leading organisations working on making Chrome & the web fast. My work involves leading some of our projects to help how quickly Chrome loads pages, shaping APIs, and defining best practices to help large sites deliver great user experiences.

ScalabilityMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product DevelopmentTeam ManagementTechnical Architecture+31

Head of Web Developer Ecosystem

May 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Technical Lead and manager for a team in Chrome focused on improving speed and user-experience on the web. Our teams focus on a combination of standards, tooling and library projects for reducing the friction for building success on the web.

ScalabilityProduct DevelopmentTeam ManagementTechnical ArchitectureApplication ArchitectureMentoring+27

Aol

Senior Software Engineer (JavaScript)

Jan 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

Ruby on RailsProduct DevelopmentTechnical ArchitectureBackbone.jsApplication ArchitectureMentoring+23

Jquery project

jQuery team (Bug Triage Team, API Docs Team, Core)

Aug 2010 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Problem SolvingComputer ScienceProduct VisionTechnical Solution DesignAnalytical SkillsTechnical Design+3

O'reilly

Author

May 2010 – Present · 15 yrs 10 mos

Author of multiple #1 best-sellers including “Leading Effective Engineering Teams” and “JavaScript Design Patterns”

Shortsale engineering

Senior Software Engineer (Web Development, JavaScript)

Mar 2009 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs

Ruby on RailsBackbone.jsApplication ArchitectureMentoringPHPCreative Problem Solving+19

Empora group gmbh

Senior Web Developer (JavaScript)

Mar 2008 – Apr 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior Web Developer, primarily responsible for the development of web applications using JavaScript, ActionScript/Flash for widgets and PHP + SSR frameworks for the backend.

Technical ArchitectureApplication ArchitecturePHPCreative Problem SolvingJavaScriptModernization+8

Addyosmani.com

Owner and Author

Jan 2005 – Present · 21 yrs 2 mos

Between my Medium channel and personal site, the canonical technical articles I author have been viewed more than 17M times in the last few years. I focus on taking complex topics related to Web Performance or the Web Platform and try to distill them down to the core piece of insight that might help others.

Consultancy and in-house lead roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2001 – Feb 2008 · 7 yrs 1 mo

This section will detail my previous experience once I get some more free time to update. Covers consultancy across large-scale developers projects requiring JavaScript, PHP, .NET and other front and back-end technologies. For complete details, please request a copy of my resume.

Team ManagementApplication ArchitectureExecutive LeadershipModernizationProblem SolvingComputer Science+5