Addy Osmani is an engineering and evangelism leader who spent over 14 years at Google leading developer experience across Chrome and, in recent years, AI (Gemini, coding agents, and agentic engineering), most recently as a Director at Google Cloud AI.
AddyOsmani.com Addy Osmani Engineering and evangelism leader Addy Osmani is an Irish engineering and evangelism leader who spent over 14 years at Google. He led developer experience across Chrome and, in recent years, AI, focusing on Gemini's developer experience, agentic engineering, coding agents, harnesses, evals and benchmarks, and code quality, before becoming a Director at Google Cloud AI running Cloud AI Developer Experience and Technical Evangelism, where he helped launch Google's agent developer platform (Agent Platform, Agent CLI, and Agent Studio). Earlier he led Chrome's Developer Experience, working on DevTools, Lighthouse, and Core Web Vitals. A developer for 25+ years, he is passionate about AI-assisted engineering and developer tools. He previously worked on Fortune 500 sites. Addy is the author of a number of books including Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, Leading Effective Engineering Teams, Stoic Mind and Image Optimization. You can find his open-source work. You can find him on LinkedIn, Twitter or TikTok. He's given over 175 talks worldwide. You can find Addy's writing on his blog, Substack and on LeadDev. Books Web Performance Engineering by Addy Osmani The Effective Software Engineer by Addy Osmani Beyond Vibe Coding by Addy Osmani Effective Software Engineering Management by Addy Osmani Building Web Apps with Bolt by Addy Osmani Building large-scale web apps by Addy Osmani Effective Eng. Teams by Addy Osmani Product Engineering with AI by Addy Osmani JS Patterns: 2nd Edition by Addy Osmani Learning Patterns by Lydia Hallie and Addy Osmani Success at Scale by Addy Osmani Developer Experience by Addy Osmani The Stoic Mind by Addy & GoLimitless SoftEng - The Soft Parts by Addy Osmani Image Optimization by Addy Osmani JS Design Patterns by Addy Osmani Featured: SM Book 4 by Addy Osmani Backbone Applications by Addy Osmani Case Studies eBay Netflix Tinder Pinterest Treebo YouTube Adobe Twitter Featured AI articles Software Factories, Light and Dark Own the Outer Loop Earning taste and judgment The Agent-Era Career Agentic Autonomy Levels The New Software Lifecycle Agentic Code Review Loop Engineering The Intent Debt The Orchestration Tax Don't Outsource the Learning Cognitive Surrender Agent Skills Long-running Agents Agent Harness Engineering Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO) Your parallel Agent limit The Code Agent Orchestra - what makes multi-agent coding work Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code. Stop Using /init for AGENTS.md Featured thoughts Critical Thinking is key Overcome team dysfunction Work is a subset of life Coach, mentor, sponsor Effective engineers Check out more of my thoughts on LinkedIn.