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Michael O'Brien | Cloud Engineer : Ex-Google | Cloud Architect / Developer | Java | CUDA | Kubernetes | GCP | AWS

• GAIL - Google Certified Generative AI Leader
• PMLE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Machine Learning Engineer
• PDBE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Database Engineer
• PDE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Data Engineer
• PCDE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Devops Engineer
• PCSE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• PCNE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• PCD - Google Certified Professional Cloud Developer
• PCA - Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
• AWS-SAP - AWS Solution Architect Professional
• CNCF Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate
• CNCF Kubernetes & Cloud Native Security Associate
• Partner Certification https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/partner-learning/renew-your-google-cloud-certification

Articles

• 2025: Performance - https://github.com/ObrienlabsDev/performance

• Latest Articles

• https://obrienlabs.medium.com/running-reasoning-llms-like-the-deepseek-r1-70b-43g-locally-for-private-offline-air-gapped-259fa437da8f

• https://obrienlabs.medium.com/running-the-larger-google-gemma-7b-35gb-llm-for-7x-inference-performance-gain-8b63019523bb

• https://github.com/ObrienlabsDev/blog/wiki/_Inspiration_Gratitude

• Architecture

• AWS

• Certification

• Coding Languages

• Biometric Heart Rate Streaming from Mobile Devices

• DevRel Developer Guide

• Drone Streaming Extraction

• CUDA based - High Performance Computing - LLM Training - Ground to GCP Cloud Hybrid

• Kubernetes

• Performance

• Serverless Reference Architecture

• Calling Google Cloud APIs privately from on prem using Private Service Connect

• Quantum Computing

• Google Gemini LLM

• Duet AI for LLM based Acceleration in GCP

• Machine Learning on Local or Cloud based NVidia or Apple GPUs

• LLMs - Yes and Why?

• LLM and Machine Learning Custom Hardware

• Training

• 70B LLaMA 2 LLM local inference on metal via llama.cpp on Mac Studio M2 Ultra - Medium

• see: https://obrienlabs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LABS

• see: https://github.com/cloud-quickstart/wiki/tree/main

• see: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/pubsec-declarative-toolkit/wiki

• see: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/pbmm-on-gcp-onboarding/wiki

• https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/pbmm-on-gcp-onboarding/blob/gh357-tef-v4-fork/z_2024_v020_pre_tef_v4/docs/google-cloud-security-controls.md

• see GCP docs - https://github.com/ObrienlabsDev/blog/blob/main/google-cloud-onboarding.md#gcp-organization-deletion

Open Source

• EclipseLink
• Neo4J
• ONAP
• Rancher
• • https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/12178
• Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform

Markdown

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Feature to Technology coverage mapping

graph LR;
  f1["create"];
  f2["read"];
  f3["update"];
  f4["delete"];
  f5["search"];

  tGFE["GFE"];
  t2["webapp"];
  t3["REST API Server"];
  t4["Sharded DB"];
  t5["Bigquery"];

  f1 --> tGFE;
  f2 --> tGFE;
  f3 --> tGFE;
  f4 --> tGFE;
  f5 --> tGFE;
  f2 --> t2;
  f3 --> t3;
  f5 --> t5;

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graph LR;
  n1["Design"];
  n2["Implementation"];
  n3["Code Review"];
  n4["Merge"];
  n5["Research"];
  n1 -->|hand-off| n2;
  n2 -->|PR| n3;
  n3 -->|ok| n4;
  n1 --> n5;
  n5 -->|feedback| n1;

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graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

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Quotes

• "The mystery is in the questions" - Matt Galloway 20250129