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Tony Gentilcore

Co-founder, Engineering; Product Engineering lead, Glean

  • Co-founder, Engineering; Product Engineering lead, Glean1

Tony Gentilcore is a co-founder of Glean and leads the company's product engineering. During a decade at Google, Gentilcore helped modernize the web search results page and later founded and led the Chrome Speed Team, which contributed to the HTML5 specification and helped form the W3C Web Performance Working Group.1

At a glance

Current role
Co-founder, Engineering; Product Engineering lead
Company
Glean
Sector
Company
Work listed
1
Sources cited
1
Profile reviewed

Career

Gentilcore spent about a decade at Google, where Gentilcore helped move the web search results page from a static list of links to a JavaScript-based page. Gentilcore later founded and led the Chrome Speed Team, whose work included contributions to the HTML5 specification and helping to form the W3C Web Performance Working Group.1

Gentilcore is one of the founders Glean lists for the company, founded in January 2019, and is titled co-founder for engineering. Glean describes Gentilcore's focus as building products with fast and smooth user interfaces across device sizes.1

Work and contributions

  • Chrome Speed Team

    Founded and led the Chrome Speed Team at Google, which contributed to the HTML5 specification and helped form the W3C Web Performance Working Group.1

Timeline

  1. Co-founded Glean, whose About page gives January 2019 as the founding date.1

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Engineer on web search and founder and lead of the Chrome Speed Team, Google1

Where they work

  • Glean 3 people in the wiki

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References

1 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Glean — About (founders)Glean · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026