Summary
Thierno Thiam is a Web Ecosystem Engineer at Google with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile applications and integrating platform-scale features. He focuses on making Web AI accessible—currently working on Gemini integration in Chrome—and collaborates across product, platform and partner teams to evolve APIs, developer tools and web best practices. Thierno's background spans startups, NGOs and telco, where he led engineering teams, defined product roadmaps, and shipped modern web architectures using Node.js, Angular, Ionic and PHP/Symfony. Passionate about education and African youth empowerment, he combines community building with technical mentorship and has a track record of launching practical civic and edtech platforms. Pragmatic and curious, he brings both system-level thinking and boots-on-the-ground delivery, having moved from consulting and freelancing to influencing web platform direction at Google. He describes his daily drive succinctly: treating each new day as “another opportunity to be world class.”
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'Ingénieur de Conception (DIC), Computer Engineering, Diplôme d'Ingénieur de Conception (DIC), Computer Engineering at Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de DAKAR
Baccalauréat Serie S1 (Physique et Mathématique), Baccalauréat Serie S1 (Physique et Mathématique) at Lycée de Ndioum
English, French, wollof, pullard