
Engineering and evangelism leader who spent over 14 years at Google leading developer experience for Chrome and Gemini.
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Addy Osmani is one of the most prolific voices on agentic engineering and AI-assisted software development, with a steady run of 2025-2026 blog posts and conference appearances on orchestrating coding agents, spec-driven development, and the evolving role of engineers in the AI era. Attendees get practitioner-level frameworks — from his widely-starred 'agent-skills' repo (66k+ stars) to his writing on comprehension debt, loop engineering, and the orchestration tax — from someone who led developer experience at Google Chrome and was later a Director at Google Cloud AI/Gemini.
Beyond the code: Leading engineering teams in the GenAI eraLeadDev New York 2025 · 2025
Why You Need Spec-Driven Development in the Age of AI with Addy Osmani and Tim O'ReillyO'Reilly · Mar 2026
How to Beat AI FOMO and Stay Ahead in 2026 with Addy Osmani and Tim O'ReillyO'Reilly · Mar 2026
Live with Tim O'Reilly: A Conversation with Google Cloud AI Director Addy OsmaniO'Reilly · Feb 2026