Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani | |
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| Born | March 1986 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Sheffield Hallam University, University of Warwick |
| Occupation | Software Engineer |
| Known for | Head of Google Chrome’s Web Developer Insights division |
Notable work | Google Lighthouse, Google PageSpeed Tools, Yeoman (computing) |
| Website | addyosmani |
Addy Osmani (born March 1986) is an Irish software engineer, author and Public speaker who works for Google as an Engineering Manager. He is currently leading developer tooling for Google Chrome, Google's web browser.[1][2][3][4]
Career
Before joining Google, Addy was at AOL (America Online), driving UI engineering on advertising systems and web developer tools. Prior to AOL, he worked at image and video search company Pixsta and jQuery.[5][6]
Addy joined Google in 2012, and is currently the head of Google Chrome's Web developer Insights division, overseeing web development tools such as Google Lighthouse, Google PageSpeed Tools and the Chrome Headless browser. He has also worked on search initiatives, such as User experience signals for ranking (Core Web Vitals, page experience), and software development tools to improve user-experience on the web.[7][8]
He has contributed to improve how well Google Chrome loads web pages, including native.[9] Addy led Google's developer tooling efforts to support measuring signals that are part of search's page experience criteria.[10][11]
In 2019, Addy collaborated with Google Fonts to give developers more control over how web typography loads, to improve performance.[12][13]
Software
Osmani created TodoMVC[14] in 2011.[15]
Osmani was among the Google engineers that created Yeoman (software) - a scaffolding tool for modern web applications written with Node.js. Yeoman had over 9,400 template generators for libraries like React.js and AngularJS.[16][17]
In 2015, Osmani announced the Material Design Lite (MDL) CSS and JavaScript library.[18]
In 2018, Osmani created the Quicklink JavaScript library for automatically prefetching links a user may need on a web page for subsequent navigations.[19]
Awards
In 2014, Osmani received the O’Reilly Web Platform Award[20][21]
In 2020, Osmani's React.js Adaptive Hooks[22] project won an Open Source Award as part of the Most Exciting Use of Technology category.[22]
Bibliography
- "Image Optimization",[23]
- "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns",[24]
- "Developing Backbone.js Applications".[25]
References
- ↑ Zetlin, Minda (November 11, 2019). "Does Your Website Load Slowly? Google Chrome May Start Punishing You With a Label Warning Users About the Wait". Inc.com.
- ↑ Keizer, Gregg (November 12, 2019). "Google ponders shaming slow websites inside Chrome". Computerworld.
- ↑ "Google's New Web Starter Kit Is A Boilerplate For Multi-Screen Web Development". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
- ↑ "Meet Image Optimization, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani". Smashing Magazine. April 28, 2021.
- ↑ McNeal, Ryan. "New Chrome Badge System Will Identify And Warn Users About Slow Websites". Forbes.
- ↑ "Facebook devs devise Hermes to push cross-platform JavaScript to godlike speeds". www.theregister.com.
- ↑ "Speed is now a landing page factor for Google Search and Ads | Web". Google Developers.
- ↑ "Want better JavaScript performance? Google's tips for stopping the programming language from slowing Chrome". TechRepublic.
- ↑ "New Chrome Lazy Loading Feature Coming Soon". Search Engine Journal. April 8, 2019.
- ↑ "Google Chrome Set to Make Navigation to Previously Visited Pages Faster". NDTV Gadgets 360.
- ↑ "[Update: Coming to Chrome 86] Going back and forward in Google Chrome will get a lot faster with bfcache". July 24, 2020.
- ↑ Leatherman, Zach. "Google Fonts is Adding font-display 🎉—zachleat.com". Zach Leatherman.
- ↑ Sev, Chris. "Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!". Scotch.
- ↑ "TodoMVC". todomvc.com.
- ↑ "Introduction - React Tutorial".
- ↑ "Generators | Yeoman". yeoman.io.
- ↑ Osmani, Addy (2013-05-10). Developing Backbone.js Applications: Building Better JavaScript Applications. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-1-4493-2856-6.
- ↑ Swanner, Nate (July 6, 2015). "Google unveils Material Design Lite to help websites look more like Android apps". TNW | Google.
- ↑ "Quicklink". getquick.link.
- ↑ "O'Reilly Web Platform Award Winners Announced: O'Reilly Fluent Conference, March 11 - 13, 2014, San Francisco, CA". conferences.oreilly.com. Archived from the original on 2020-07-23.
- ↑ "Seek 10.0 (Digtial)". Issuu.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "React Open Source Awards - GitNation". osawards.com.
- ↑ "Meet Image Optimization, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani". Smashing Magazine. April 28, 2021.
- ↑ "Review: Learning JavaScript Design Patterns". www.raymondcamden.com.
- ↑ Osmani, Addy (July 8, 2012). "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns: A JavaScript and jQuery Developer's Guide". "O'Reilly Media, Inc." – via Google Books.
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