Developer stories
Developer Journey
Burcu Geneci, Co-Founder & CTO at Monday Hero, Inc.
Read more about Burcu's Journey - using Google Cloud services as a CTO and technical founder & more stories on developers impacting the world.
Loiane’s Journey
Loiane Groner is a Google Developer Expert based in Florida. Using Angular, Angular Material, and Firebase, Loiane built a student training portal that has now served over 100,000 students.
Lynn’s Journey
Lynn Langit is a Google Developer Expert in Cloud from Minnesota. Lynn uses BigQuery, along with the Variant Transforms tool, for data files in her work in the healthcare industry.
Richard’s Journey
Richard Knowles is an Android Developer in Los Angeles, California who knows the importance of building accessible apps. Richard has been using the Accessibility Scanner to build apps since 2011.
Stories from our developer community
Community Stories: Ashwarya and Akshay
Explore how Ashwarya Garg and Akshay Bhatnagar, Co-founders of Hypd, utilized Google technology and developer tools to help push their ideas further.
Yohanes' Story
Meet Google for Startups Accelerator: Indonesia alumni Yohanes, whose mission is to transform agriculture for 33 million food growers.
Pankaj's Story
TagHive plans a platform for a million classrooms, from India to South Korea, an AI-powered quiz app engages students from school to home.
Jeonghyun's Story
See how Korean startup BlueSignum uses AI to provide personalized digital mental health services with a little help from Google for Startups Accelerator.
Community Stories: Rashi
Explore how Akash Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Zypp Electric, utilized Google technology and developer tools to help push their ideas further.
Ariba’s Story
Google for Startups: Women Founders India alumni Ariba shares how JumpingMinds uses AI to build a full-stack mental health solution and community.
Chaitsi’s Story
Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders alumni shares how Brown Living drives sustainability with its zero-waste e-commerce platform.
Community Stories: Benjamin
Explore how Benjamin Gauthier, CEO of Comeen, utilized Google technology and developer tools to help push their ideas further.
Madona's Story
Meet some of the Google Developer Experts that are part of the Android Developer community, organized by Madona Wambua.
Andreu's Story
See how a Google Developer Group in Spain is working together help reforest areas affected by wildfire using drones and Google technology like TensorFlow.
Sanjana's Story
Meet Sanjana Chakravarty, Google Developer Student Club Lead in Kolkata, India.
Min and Courtney's Stories
Meet two Founder/CEOs: Min Chin of Wisy, a product to optimize retails operations, and Courtney MoColgan of Runa, a payroll software company.
Jennifer's Story
A computer science professor specializing in Android & Accessibility shares her experience in tech and the impact of GDG throughout her career.
Andrew's Story
Andrew Rowland, CEO of Classkick, shares how the company ensures students get the help they need using Firebase Realtime Database and Cloud Storage.
Dang's Story
Dang Nguyen, a computer engineering student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, started and led a Google Developer Student Club chapter.
Rene's Story
Meet Rene Capella, Google Developer Student Club Lead in Seattle, Washington.
Kevin's Story
Meet Kevin Davin, a Google Developer Experts member.
Rabia's Story
Meet Rabia Moussa, a software engineer from Niger who has been a Women Techmakers Ambassador for over 5 years.
Ekaterina's Story
Meet Ekaterina Gricaenko, a GDSC Lead from Ukraine. For her, becoming a developer means being able to help others learn about technology.
Liza's Story
Meet Google Developer Expert Liza Goldberg.
Ceren's Story
Ceren Gul, GDG Organizer in Edine, Turkey shares tips on on community building, Android documentation, and professional growth.
Maryam's Story
Meet Maryam Alhuthayfi, a Senior Android Developer in Saudi Arabia paving the way for future women in the web development industry.
Hastu's Story - Part 2
Explore Google Accessibility at I/O with Hastu.
Aladeen and Yasmine's Story
GDG RandoTek travels to less developed regions in Tunisia to teach young people about Google technologies.
Mark's Story
See how Mark and Ulla use Firebase Realtime Database and Firebase Cloud Functions to simplify transactions between purchasing managers and buyers.
Matthias' Story
See how Matthias Friederich, Android chapter lead at MOIA, uses Firebase Remote Config and other Firebase tools to build an eco-friendly rideshare business.
Annalisa's Story
See the skills gained from the Women Developers Academy, like contributing to the community via technical public speaking and writing.
Madona's Story
Meet Madona Syombua, a Women Techmakers Ambassador who works as an Android Engineer at Stream.
Saskia's Story
Meet Saskia and hear how Women Developers Academy helped to develop her communication, leadership, and confidence skills to excel in tech.
David's Story
A Google Developer Student Club in Ghana creates an AR navigation app for campus.
Parker's Story
What if responses to emergency situations were community-based? Discover PulsePoint, an app that uses GMP and mobile phones to locate CPR-trained citizens in an emergency.
Todd's Story
Angular GDE Todd Motto would love to see people talk about mental health more freely–in tech and in other areas of life.
Alice's Story
Meet Alice Keeler, a GDE in Google Workspace.
Lesego and Simon's Story
This duo is now preparing to launch the second version of their BallTalent app, which gives back to their community by pairing local soccer talent.
Esra's Story
Meet Esra Kadah, a Women Techmakers Ambassador in Turkey who has a passion for algorithms and optimizations.
Google Developer Experts
Explore a community of distinguished professionals, developers, and thought leaders changing the world through technology.
Vinay's Story
Hear from Vinay Gaba, a Tech Lead at Airbnb who has been an Android developer since 2011.
Nishu's Story
Meet Nishu Goel, a web engineer from India, GDE for Angular and web technologies, and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.
Gregorio and Filippo's Story
Meet Gregorio, a Google Developer Group (GDG) member who advocates for people with disabilities and educate other developers.
Divya's Story
See how Women Techmakers Ambassador Dhivya Krishna taught 5,000 students in India about technology.
Gonzalo's Story
See how pet supply company Oliver Pets reaches customers across Latin America with a little help from Google for Startups Accelerator.
Furkan's Story
Meet OTO, a shipping aggregator whose AI-driven dashboard routes packages to reliable couriers and provides real-time tracking to retailers in MENA.
Ashan's Story
A GDSC Lead in Islamabad develops a proof of concept Android application to prevent counterfeiting.
Maryam's Story
See how Maryam Alhuthayfi shares her passion for mobile development with fledgling developers.
Jade's Story
Meet Jade Lee, a Women Techmakers Ambassador from London, England and GDSC Student Club Lead who shares her experience as a college woman in STEM.
Assel's Story
Meet Paperstack, a Canadian startup that frees up cash flow with financial insights that allows them to analyze their creditworthiness in real time.
Cecilia's Story
Meet Cecilia Castillo, an Android developer in Guatemala advocating for women through the Google Developer Groups community.
Black Women in Tech
Explore the stories of a policy maker, creative technologist, and games designer building equity in the tech space.
Vrijraj's Story
Vrijraj Singh shares his experience building Aura, an open-source web platform to help developer communities run smoothly.
Danielle's Story
Meet Danielle Monteiro, a GDE with a focus on Google Cloud Platform.
Renee's Story
Meet Dr. K Renee Horton, a NASA System and Quality Engineer whose journey into tech began after having kids and overcoming a severe hearing disability.
Sheena's Story
Meet tech entrepreneur Sheena Allen. Her mission is to provide equitable financial services and serve unbanked communities.
Santosh's Story
Meet Santosh Yadav, a Google Developer Expert in Angular.
Annyce's Story
Meet Annyce Davis, Android GDE and Vice President of Engineering at Meetup.
Chanelle's Story
Meet the Head of Civil Rights at Google and devoted to developing systems that ensure underrepresented people have access to technology and tools.
Yanick's Story
Meet Yanick Saint-Elien, a Women Techmakers Ambassador who shares her inspiring experience as a Haitian woman in tech.
Ashley's Story
Ashley Jane Lewis is a Creative Technologist. Learn how she's changing tech with science to facilitate conversations about issues like inequity.
A.M.'s Story
See how Media Artist and Game Designer A.M. Darke is reimagining the future of Black representation in tech, gaming, and beyond.
Hufsa's Story
See how the Women Techmakers online safety training workshop breaks down existing security issues, names them, and shares how to manage them.
Aditi's Story
Aditi was new to programming when she learned about Google Developer Groups and Women Techmakers from a classmate.
David's Story
Meet Google for Startups: Africa Alumni David Maina, CTO of Workpay - an HR tech tool that bridges the gap between how Kenyans earn and spend money.
Namrata's Story
Hear Namrata's experience as a Women Techmakers Ambassador in India with a background in mechanical engineering and robotics.
Patricijia's Story
How GDSC students are using their skills to support communities in Ukraine.
Sherry's Story
Meet Sherry Yang, a Women Techmakers Ambassador since 2016, who shares her experience as an Asian woman in tech.
Ning's Story
Ning share his path to data science, Google Developer Groups (GDGs), and their many opportunities for learning, networking and collaboration.
Evelyn's Story
Meet Evelyn, a GDE in Firebase from Brazil who shares her experience working in tech as a trans woman.
Khongorzul's Story
Meet Khongorzul Munkhbat, a Women Techmakers Ambassador from Mongolia.
Krupal's Story
Meet Google Developer Expert Krupal Modi.
Hanane's Story
Meet Hanane Ait Dabel, a Women Techmakers Ambassador for Morocco, who shares her experience studying economics and computer science.
Bukola's Story
Bukola Johnson, Women Techmakers Ambassador for Berlin, shares her experience as a woman in tech and the importance of community.
Aysu's Story
From Idea to Impact: How a team from Solution Challenge launched an environmentally-focused social enterprise.
Martin's Story
Meet Martin Kleppe, co-founder of Ubilabs and a Google Cloud partner since 2012.
Bhavesh's Story
Meet Bhavesh Bhatt, a Google Developer Expert in ML from Mumbai, India.
Joao's Story
How a Google Developer Student Group Brazil Lead finds passion in problem solving.
Gaston's Story
Meet Google Developer Expert Gaston Saillen.
Positive Planet's GDG Story
Google Developer Group chapters are in a unique position to help make an impact while businesses shift to a digital first world.
Leigh's Story
Meet Leigh Johnson, a Google Developer Expert in Web and Machine Learning, and founder of Print Nanny.
Chloe's Story
How a Developer Student Lead increased representation in campus clubs through community.
Evgeny's Story
Meet Evgeny Kot, a Russian Google Developer Expert.
Khushboo's Story
Khushboo realized there was a need for a better support system for Indian patients, so she founded Zyla Health to provide personalized professional help.
Homing's Story
Meet Google Developer Expert Homing Tam, a product manager at Lalamove, an on-demand logistics company.
Yara's Story
From beginner to machine learning instructor in a year.
Samuel's Story
Learn about Solution Challenge winner Samuel’s mission to get children vaccinated in Uganda.
Olly and Daniel's Story
See how students built a web app with the potential to help frontline workers.
Jack's Story
With 1,600 students by his side, Jack Lee grew the largest Google Developer Student Club in the world.
Giovanni's Story
The US Department of Veterans Affairs created STAIR to help people manage emotions. They used Flutter to create an accessible app, and saved 30% in development time.
Alain's Story
Meet Alain Chautard, a Google Maps Platform GDE who teaches Javascript and Angular for different clients.
Tamta's Story
Tech Camp introduces Georgia high schoolers to technology careers
Kristina's Story
Meet Maps and Android Google Developer Expert Kristina Simakova.
Kubra's Story
Kübra Zengin shares how her network helped her break into the tech industry.
Nick's Story
Jetpack Compose is Android's modern toolkit for building native UI. Android's Karen Ng and Nick Butcher share how it was built to make it easier and faster to build beautiful apps.
Jacob's Story
Check out the Beta of Jetpack Compose and download the developer preview of Android 12. Let us know what you think!
Matěj's Story
A Czech developer helps fellow students learn remotely
Priyanka's Story
Google Cloud played an integral role in the simulations and data processing for Makani's take on wind powered energy, impacting the fight against global warming.
Krinza's Story
Here’s the story of a Google Developer Student Club Lead from Karachi, Pakistan who discovered her leadership potential through her community.
Irem's Story
Irem from Turkey shares her groundbreaking work in TensorFlow and her community learnings.
Luiza's Story
Inspired by how GDG brought developers together, they believed starting a community in Magas was just what they all needed to grow.
Akshay's Story
Meet Akshay Bahadur, a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, based out of India.
Eustache's Story
By learning Google tools he created a streamlined user experience that helped workers and companies in Haiti locate one another with precision and ease.
Anna's Story
See how Google Developer Group members in the Czech Republic created an interactive trivia game at DevFest.
Bolaji's Story
Young people across Nigeria are pursuing careers in tech. Hear about Bolaji Ayodeji’s journey to attend his first DevFest.
Bárbara's Story
Manaus, Brazil is a digital city with emerging startups and developers. See how DevFest brought opportunities to the region.
Srishti's Story
Meet Srishti Yadav, a Women Techmakers Ambassador for Canada, who shares the importance of speaking out and taking credit for your own work.
Icey's Story
Women Techmakers Ambassador for Hong Kong Icey Jiang shares the importance of creating a community to empower others and taking the initiative to grow together.
Nhasala's Story - Part 2
Women Techmakers Ambassador Nhasala Joshi of Kathmandu shares her experience as a woman in tech and offers her advice to our community.
Josan's Story
Filipina WTM Ambassador Josan Chung shares her experience with gender parity in tech and how that empowered her to help young girls get into STEM.
Ludymila's Story
Women Techmakers Ambassador Ludymila shares her dedication to promoting inclusion and diversity in the tech industry for women.
Heba's Story
Meet Heba Saleh, a Women Techmakers Ambassador for Alexandria, who shares the importance of creating a community to uplift and help other women in tech.
Hawra's Story
Women Techmakers Ambassador Hawra asks important questions to help better understand the narrative of women in tech around the world.
Laetitia's Story
Learn how Médecins Sans Frontières is using Machine Learning, powered by TensorFlow, to help enable medical staff to prescribe the right antibiotics for bacterial infections.
Di's Story
Hear the Read Along team discuss how they design with voice UI and machine learning to help solve child literacy.
Stefanie's Story
Meet Stefanie Jewett, the founder and CEO of Activvely: A social app that brings people together through fitness.
Chrissa's Story
Chrissa McFarlane, founder and CEO of a blockchain technology company, is committed to empowering patients to securely manage medical information.
Martin's Story
Laura and Abigail put accessibility at the forefront. They saw the opportunity to create a valuable tool for those in the hard-of-hearing community using Google Slides.
Jeremy's Story
In Toronto, Centered host Di Dang meets with BenchSci, a startup using AI to help biomedical researchers discover new drug treatments.
Sandeep's Story
Meet Sandeep Ahuja, the founder and CEO of Cove.Tool, a tool that is dedicated to democratizing building energy efficiency.
Kaspar's Story
Find out how Bank BRI uses Apigee and GCP to democratize Indonesia’s economy through transforming banking services.
Tanya's Story
Meet Tanya, entrepreneur and founder of TechSquare Labs, who is committed to paving the way for change for underrepresented and women founders.
Guarav's Story
When his daughter was born with several medical conditions, Gaurav used Flutter to create Patch Me, an app to help keep track of his daughter’s eye patching.
Allan's Story
Allan van der Meulen, co-founder of Zlto, has created a web app that is helping to enable young people to overcome South Africa's high recorded youth unemployment rate.
Nazirini's Story
Nazirini and her team built an app with TensorFlow to help farmers identify and treat Fall Armyworm, reducing crop devastation impacting Africa.
Joe's Story
Meet GDE Joe Birch and his project “Chord Assist”, which improves the experience of learning guiitar for the mute, deaf, and blind.
Nick's Story
Hear how Nick Rout was able to find an empowering community of developers from all over the world that share his passion and interest in Android.
Zarah's Story
Meet Google Developer Expert Danielle Monteiro.
Zarah's Story
Explore how Zarah found an empowering community of developers who share her passion and interest in Android.
Rio's Story
Hear Sasha’s story and learn how he teamed up with fellow Googlers Dianna and Rio to develop accessible routing in Google Maps. Accessibility should be built into your app from the ground up!
Amey's Story
Amey learned to create a low cost hearing aid with Android. See his story.
Dhruv's Story
Dhruv Hemmady, Technical Project Manager of Spring ML, covers some real world use cases of conversational AI and how they have come to life, from idea to finished experience.
Luke's Story
Learn how Mighty Immersion, a 3 person startup based in America, is improving patient care by building immersive VR games - with a little help from Firebase.
David's Story
Explore David Asem's discussion on how DSC Ghana solves accessibility for first year students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Adeloye's Story
See how Babymigo reduces Nigeria’s infant and mother mortality rate by using technology to provide education, community, and resources to parents.
Nhasala's Story - Part 1
Nhasala Joshi co-founded Women Leaders in Technology in Nepal. She is a GDG organizer, a WTM Ambassador, and an advocate for women's rights in the workplace.
TensorFlow at Google I/O 2019
The TensorFlow team takes you inside the ML & AI sandbox at Google I/O 2019 to show you some of the coolest new demos powered by TensorFlow, including Dance Like, PoseNet, and Piano Genie.
Yasmine's Story
Meet design advocate Liam Spradlin of Anchor, a podcasting app that uses color and type to express brand personality, which won a Material Design Award in 2018.
Rayan's Story
Rayan launched the Women Techmakers GDG Chapter in the Middle East to become a mentor and role model for women pursuing careers in technology.
Ashwini's Story
See how India’s largest video streaming platform used Firebase to roll out new features during a livestreamed event, analyzed data, and reduced app startup time with BigQuery.
David's Story
Hear students from Ashesi University in Ghana share their Developer Student Club experience at a Cloud Study Jam.
Christopher's Story
Starbucks built a Progressive Web App that adapts to user context. Hear about their custom FAB and explore how they're bringing the barista experience to Google Assistant.
Rayan's Story
Rayan Al Zahab, organizer of GDG DevFest Coast Lebanon, shares her journey to GDG and her favorite part of participating.
Wayne's Story
Wayne and other students from Ashesi University in Ghana share their experience at a Cloud Study Jam.
Joel's Story
Google Cloud's Apigee platform plays a key role in getting AccuWeather’s powerful weather data into the hands of innovative developers worldwide.
William's Story
In 2016, Google committed to training 100,000 Indonesian developers by 2020. Learn about the project.
Michael's Story
We're in Toronto to chat with the 1Password team and hear how user feedback shaped their Android app experience both on mobile and Chrome OS.
Gäelle's Story
DevFest in Nantes, France started as a small event and now includes over 2,000 developers! It's a great place to meet new friends, find a job, and learn.
Hastu's Story - Part 1
A hearing-impaired student becomes an Android app developer for her community.
Zach's Story
See how Pinterest revamped their mobile web experience to focus on performance, and saw an uplift in both user sentiment, and engagement.
Aditya's Story
Are we alone in the universe? Does life exist on other planets? If so, what does it look like? To seek answers, Google Cloud teamed up with NASA FDL (Frontier Development Lab).
Yasmin's Story
In this episode, Yasmine goes to Paris, France to meet with Happn—a dating app that uses gamification to help you find your crush.
Janvi's Story
Firebase debugging tools and Google Analytics for Firebase have empowered the Google Photos team to gather better insights, which has led to a 40% higher engagement rate with the app.
Travis' Story
Learn how Walmart, the world’s largest employer, designed an effective user experience for their 2 million-plus employees.
Ben's Story
Sworkit has a team of only three developers, but over 10 million users. Using Firebase, they were able to scale their infrastructure and manage their data analytics without issue.
Jenny's Story
Meet with the International Rescue Committee and volunteers from Google.org, working to redesign an app that helps Syrian refugees move from surviving to thriving.
Carson's Story
Meet Steve the Tree - a 20x20 foot installment that reacts to sensor input, displays light arrays, is controlled using Firebase, and is powered by Android Things.
Brittany's Story
Learn how a team of Google engineers worked to build Rosie the Android - a fully controllable selfie-taking robot, that can take photos and wheel around to interact with participants.
Destiana's Story
Indonesia Flood Prevention App with Dana from Google Developer Student Clubs Indonesia