Akshay Kumar Minz
Member since 2022
Silver League
35608 points
Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 17, 2026 EDT
Manage Agent Memory and State
Earned May 9, 2026 EDT
Add Agent Capabilities With Tools
Earned May 9, 2026 EDT
Optimize Agent Behavior
Earned May 5, 2026 EDT
Engineer AI Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Apr 30, 2026 EDT
Build Your First Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Apr 29, 2026 EDT
Build Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Apr 28, 2026 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: Customer insights with NotebookLM
Earned Oct 25, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Gemini Gems – Your ultimate marketing sidekick
Earned Oct 25, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot
Earned Jul 26, 2025 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned May 20, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] The Skills Challenge at Next 2025
Earned Mar 17, 2025 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PMLE
Earned Feb 20, 2025 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Sep 24, 2024 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG
Earned Sep 24, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings
Earned Sep 24, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Sep 12, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Sep 12, 2024 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned Sep 12, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Sep 12, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned Sep 8, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Sep 8, 2024 EDT
Gemini for end-to-end SDLC
Earned Aug 23, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Cloud Architects
Earned Aug 23, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Agent Platform
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED]Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Aug 19, 2024 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Aug 16, 2024 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: ACE Exam Prep
Earned Aug 5, 2024 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture
Earned Jul 31, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Jul 29, 2024 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Jul 19, 2024 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Earned Jul 18, 2024 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud
Earned Jul 16, 2024 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Earned Jul 16, 2024 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Earned Jul 12, 2024 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Jul 6, 2024 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Jul 6, 2024 EDT
Complete the intermediate Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: managing deployments with kubectl, monitoring and debugging applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and continuous delivery techniques.
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You've built basic LLM agents that respond to queries—now let's make them stateful. Use session state to build agents that maintain context, remember user preferences, and provide personalized experiences. Transform agents from stateless responders to intelligent assistants.
Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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You’ve built agents with advanced configuration—now give them real-world capabilities. Equip agents with tools that enable searching the web, executing code, querying databases, and performing custom actions. Transform agents from intelligent responders into capable assistants that take action. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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You’ve built your first agent—now it’s time to take it further. In this course, you’ll advance your skills by learning how to turn a basic AI agent into a sophisticated, precise assistant—applying advanced instructions, model selection, planning capabilities, and structured output patterns.
Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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Complete the intermediate Engineer AI Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK) skill badge by completing this course to demonstrate skills in the following: formulating real-world language model research problems; building a simple tokenizer; preparing a dataset for training a transformer language model; running the training loop of a small language model. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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Turn your understanding of agents into practical reality by building, configuring, and running your first AI agent using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK).
In this hands-on course, you’ll set up a complete ADK development environment, create agents with both Python code and YAML configuration, and run them through multiple interfaces. You’ll also learn the core parameters that define agent behavior, taking what you learned in course 1 and applying it to working code.Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program
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Learn about how you can use Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build complex, production-ready AI agents. This course covers ADK’s open-source framework, moving from simple prompt engineering to a code-first, structured software development approach suitable for enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This video covers how NotebookLM can revolutionize customer insight gathering from call or chat transcripts. You'll learn to upload PDF transcripts of hundreds of conversations (even multilingual ones!) and quickly extract key themes, trending topics, and actionable insights without listening for hours. Discover how to save findings, share notebooks, and even generate interactive podcast summaries of your data.
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This video covers how to create your own Gemini Gems, advanced AI capabilities that can automate repetitive tasks and supercharge your productivity.
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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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This Course is utilized to certify completion of The Skills Challenge at Next 2025.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE) certification exam. You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook, and use the study guide to practice for a certification exam.
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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.
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Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you.
In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.
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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Agent Platform skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Agent Platform. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam.
You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook in Gemini Notebook , and learn how to use a study guide to practice for a certification exam.
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In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. This course explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address a rapidly evolving landscape of security challenges. This course explores the foundations of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud’s secure-by-design infrastructure, and the defense-in-depth strategy, while highlighting how AI-driven operations and compliance tools help organizations meet strict global regulatory requirements.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and apps that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems and investing in new products and services. This course explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Cloud technology is a powerful asset, and when paired with data, it becomes a catalyst for innovation and enhanced customer experiences. Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud examines how organizations can leverage the cloud to make their data more accessible, actionable, and valuable.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Digital transformation is a critical journey for modern organizations, and establishing a strong baseline in cloud computing is the first step toward driving meaningful innovation. Digital Transformation with Google Cloud introduces the core technologies and strategic frameworks that help organizations modernize their operations. This course explores fundamental cloud concepts, global network infrastructure, and the shared responsibility model to help leaders navigate their path to the cloud with confidence.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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