Guillaume Vernade
Deepmind Senior Developer Advocate
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume Vernade is a Senior Developer Advocate with 10+ years blending product, developer relations, and hands-on engineering across Google DeepMind and Google’s GenAI teams. He has a strong games-to-AI trajectory—starting in innovation and game production at Ubisoft and Stadia, then moving to developer advocacy for Gemini and DeepMind models. Guillaume runs workshops, managed the Gemini Early Access Program, and maintains popular open-source resources such as the Gemini Cookbook (a #1 trending repo over the 2024 holidays) where he contributed large-context examples and REST caching quickstarts. He pairs technical fluency in back-end integrations and developer tooling with program and partner management experience from Nest and Stadia, making him effective at translating product needs into developer-ready solutions. Based in Rennes, France, he combines an ENS computer science background with an MBA-style management training, and he’s unusually comfortable alternating between coding, running workshops, and steering cross-functional programs. Colleagues know him for pragmatic agility—reorganizing teams and repos alike to reduce silos and speed delivery.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Economics, Master, Computer Science, Economics at Ecole normale supérieureMBA, management, leadership, finance, entrepreneurship, MBA, management, leadership, finance, entrepreneurship at Collège des ingénieursCPGE, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, CPGE, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science at Lycée Aux Lazaristes
French, English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
api10
python10
rest-api9
documentation8
caching7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google-gemini/cookbook
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Examples and guides for using the Gemini API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 181 PRs, 99 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume made several contributions focused on incorporating the 2M tokens context window with Pro models, specifically documenting and demonstrating its usage in a quickstart notebook. They also reordered imports and formatted code in an example notebook. Furthermore, the user created a new caching quickstart using the REST API, including example code and documentation.
geminigemini-api
Giom-V/Home-assistant
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Personal home assistant config
Contributions:1 review, 631 commits, 211 PRs in 2 years 9 months
home-assistant-configassistanthome-automationhome-assistantconfig
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