Addy Osmani

Engineering leader and senior thinker

Addy Osmani is an Irish Software Engineer and leader currently working on the Google Chrome web browser. He has worked at Google for ten years, focused on making the web fast. He previously worked at AOL and on Fortune 500 sites. Addy is the author of a number of books including Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, Learning Patterns, and Image Optimization.

Books

Image Optimization by Addy Osmani. A Smashing Magazine title.

Modern Web Apps - a guide to writing high-performance React web applications by Lydia Hallie and Addy Osmani

Success at scale - a book of technical production case studies from popular large sites by Addy Osmani and friends

Efficient Engineers - a book of growth tips for engineers, tech leads and managers by Addy Osmani

14 Habits of highly productive developers

New perspectives on web design

Backbone Fundamentals

Case Studies

eBay

Netflix

Tinder

Pinterest

Pictured: Addy Osmani. Clothes by Calkin Klein

Current projects

I lead some of Google Chrome's Speed and Developer Experience efforts. Our projects include Aurora, WordPress Performance, Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights and Chrome User Experience Report. We recently shipped User Flows for DevTools and Lighthouse!
Open-source

Projects I've contributed to include Lighthouse, Workbox, Quicklink, Guess.js, Yeoman, HNPWA, TodoMVC, Critical and Material Design Lite. You can find more on GitHub.
YouTube

I previously appeared on State Of The Web talking about the state of JavaScript. The last show I did was season 4 of Totally Tooling Tips with Matt Gaunt. It has unicorns!.
Talks

Recordings of my talks are on my YouTube channel. These include Optimize the Core Web Vitals and Cost Of JavaScript. You can find some of my talks on Lanyrd and slides on SpeakerDeck.
Blog

My latest blog posts can be found on my web.dev profile. My last post on here was: Software Engineering - The Soft Parts