Dipak Sonawane
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Earn the Introductory Skill Badge by completing the Implement Speech and Language Solutions with Pre-trained APIs course, where you learn how to use speech related API tools to synthesise and transcribe speech.
Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Managed Service for Apache Spark, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Share Data Using Google Data Cloud skill badge course, where you will gain practical experience with Google Cloud Data Sharing Partners, which have proprietary datasets that customers can use for their analytics use cases. Customers subscribe to this data, query it within their own platform, then augment it with their own datasets and use their visualization tools for their customer facing dashboards.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus skill badge course, where you learn Kubernetes Monitoring with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop with Apps Script and AppSheet skill badge course, where you learn how to build chat bots and how to use the script editor in any document.
Complete the introductory Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: securing and configuring a Cloud Storage bucket, using Gemini for text generation, managing IAM access control, and establishing a Knowledge Catalog lake for data governance.
Streaming high-velocity data is great, but only if your pipeline doesn't break under pressure. In this trail, you'll wire up Pub/Sub and Python Dataflow to stream live data straight into Cloud Storage, then lock the whole environment down. By encrypting keys with Cloud KMS, cataloging assets, and isolating networks with VPC Peering, you'll clear both challenge labs and prove you can build real-time data lakes that are as fast as they are secure.
Complete the introductory Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: granting and revoking IAM permissions; installing monitoring and logging agents; creating, deploying, and testing an event-driven Cloud Run function.
Cloud architecture is a lot more fun when you actually know which levers to pull. In this adventure, you'll wire up Pub/Sub messaging, sling storage buckets from the terminal, and trigger Cloud Run functions without getting tangled in server management. Once your pipeline is moving, you'll lock the front door with IAM permissions and wire up real-time monitoring so nothing breaks while you're away. Finish both challenge labs to prove you can build fast, break nothing, and keep the whole machine running smoothly.
Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Pub/Sub are all Google Cloud Platform services that can be used to store, process, and manage data. All three services can be used together to create a variety of data-driven applications. In this skill badge you use Cloud Storage to store images, Cloud Functions to process the images, and Cloud Pub/Sub to send the images to another application.
Complete the introductory Monitoring in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Cloud Monitoring tools to monitor resources on Google Cloud.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API quest, where you learn how the API derives sentiment from text.
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.
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.
Earn the intermediate Skill Badge by completing the Connecting Cloud Networks with NCC where you will learn how to use the Network Connectivity Center to connect your on-premises, cloud enterprise networks, and hybrid networks, and manage them as spokes through a single, centralized hub on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
Complete the Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets skill badge to demonstrate that you can use Connected Sheets to access, analyze, visualize, and share billions of rows of BigQuery data from your Google Sheets spreadsheet.
Complete the introductory Secure Lakehouse Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills with IAM, BigQuery, Lakehouse, and Knowledge Catalog to create and secure Lakehouse tables.
Earn a Skill Badge by completing the Build Event-Driven Applications with Eventarc course. In this course, you use Eventarc to create event triggers for different resources, including Pub/Sub topics and Cloud Storage buckets.
Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification exam. You'll review Gemini Notebook features, add sources to your notebook, and learn how to personalize your Gemini Notebook experience to study for the exam.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Knowledge Catalog to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Knowledge Catalog.
Welcome to this month's Arcade Simulator where you will be a Data Mesh Architect. In this simulation, you'll first tackle BigQuery to build date-partitioned tables, solve complex join pitfalls, and master nested data structures. Then, you'll shift to decentralized governance using Dataplex Knowledge Catalog to organize assets, assign metadata, and enforce strict cloud security. Complete with two realistic challenge labs, this simulation equips you to break down data silos, scale your infrastructure, and run a secure, seamless data mesh.
Managing an organization’s digital ecosystem isn't just about keeping the lights on—it's about building a secure launchpad for collaboration. In this trail, you'll step into the Google Workspace Admin Console to control user provisioning and application security from the ground up. Then, you'll switch gears to digital education, transforming standard environments into secure virtual classrooms using Google Meet and Google Classroom. Backed by a challenge lab, this trail is your fast track to running enterprise-grade cloud workspaces.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API quest, where you discover how to leverage the Cloud Vision API for various tasks, including extracting text from images.
Complete the intermediate Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: preventing and managing environment threats, identifying and mitigating application vulnerabilities, and responding to security anomalies.
Building a true "safe space" in the cloud means protecting your applications from external threats while keeping your internal infrastructure stable and efficient. This challenege starts by turning Security Command Center into your ultimate defensive shield—learning to spot risks, investigate threats, and secure your perimeter. From there, you'll bring that same safe-space philosophy to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by isolating workloads safely with multi-tenant namespaces and protecting your budget through smart autoscaling ensuring your cloud environments remain secure and perfectly optimized.
Who says you need a mountain of code to build great software? This adv is your fast lane to rapid app development and automation. First, you'll jump into Google AppSheet to build and launch fully functional apps entirely code-free. Then, you'll master the backend with Cloud Run Functions, deploying event-driven code via the console and command line. Packed with two hands-on challenge labs, this quest is your ticket to building slick apps and scaling them effortlessly on Google Cloud.
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Complete the intermediate Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Your Ecosystem skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API) to discover, inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data across your Google Cloud ecosystem including Cloud Storage files, BigQuery data, and Gen AI model responses.
Data is one of the most valuable assets an organization owns, making its safe handling and governance essential. In this voyage, you will master Cloud Storage fundamentals by automating bucket management via APIs and the CLI, while enforcing compliance with Bucket Lock. You will then advance to automated security, configuring Sensitive Data Protection Discovery to scan and catalog risks across BigQuery and Cloud Storage. Complete with two challenge labs, this journey equips you to secure assets across your entire cloud ecosystem.
Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery.
Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.
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.
Complete the intermediate Secure Software Delivery skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in proactively integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with DevSecOps principles. You'll learn how to utilize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run for secure container image deployment, implement automated vulnerability scanning to proactively identify risks, and streamline application development with Artifact Registry while maintaining a focus on security. Additionally, you'll gain skills in integrating Cloud Build for robust development processes and implementing Admission Control Policies for fine-grained control over your environment.
Earn a Introductory skill badge by completing the Build Serverless Applications with Cloud Run Functions course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line.
Building a reliable platform for data analysis requires structured data modeling and clean, maintainable code. In this challenge, you’ll start with the building blocks of LookML, creating custom dimensions, measures, and derived tables to shape your data exactly how you need it. From there, you'll work on making your platform faster and easier to use by setting up caching, defining datagroups, and modularizing your code using extends. By following these development best practices, you'll walk away knowing how to build efficient, scalable data models that your team can easily rely on.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
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.
Keeping your cloud resources secure and making your apps smarter are two essential skills for any cloud developer. In this voyage, you’ll start with the security fundamentals, learning how to configure service accounts, manage IAM permissions using gcloud, and set up custom roles. Once you've secured your environment, you'll work with Google Cloud's pre-trained AI tools—converting text to synthetic speech, translating languages on the fly, and transcribing audio files into text. Complete with two practical challenge labs to test your skills, you'll walk away knowing how to safely manage access to your cloud project while adding powerful language and speech features to your applications.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Using the Google Cloud Speech API skill badge course, where you learn how create a Speech-to-Text API request, transcribe audio speech to text, and transcribe speech.
Raw data is only useful if it is clean, structured, and secure. In this track, you’ll start by processing and preparing data using Dataprep, Dataflow templates, and Apache Spark. You'll learn how to clean up datasets so they are ready for machine learning models. From there, you'll focus on security by working with tools that find and mask sensitive information like personal IDs and credentials. You'll practice redacting critical details and creating safe, de-identified copies of your data in Cloud Storage. By finishing the hands-on challenge labs, you’ll show you can handle big data workflows while keeping confidential information completely safe.
Writing code is just the first step; you also need to know how to deploy it smoothly and keep it running at its best. In this adventure, you’ll get started with serverless setups by running code on Cloud Run Functions and connecting your services using Google Cloud Pub/Sub. From there, you'll work on the operations side—building out clean development environments, keeping tabs on multiple projects at once, and setting up smart alerts so you can spot and fix issues early. With a couple of challenge labs thrown into the mix, you’ll walk away with the skills needed to build, monitor, and scale apps on Google Cloud.
Complete the introductory Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using APIs to work with Cloud Storage resources, including the Cloud Storage API.
Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute skill badge course, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine.
Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud skill badge course. This course is based on the Get Cooking in Cloud series and covers`:`Deploying a website on Cloud RunHosting a web app on Compute EngineCreating, deploying, and scaling your website on Google Kubernetes EngineMigrating from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture using Cloud Build
Earn a Skill Badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Applications on Google App Engine course, where you learn how to use App Engine with Python, Go, and PHP.
Working with data and applications requires the right balance of governance and agility. In this voyage, you’ll use Dataplex to organize, secure, and assess data quality while exploring concepts like data mesh. Alongside, you’ll get hands-on with Firebase—building serverless apps, working with Firestore, and managing data in real time—bringing together modern data management and application development.
As platforms grow, maintaining speed, reliability, and seamless user experiences becomes critical. Inspired by Bobble AI and its journey to support millions of real-time interactions, this challenge explores how cloud-native systems are designed for efficiency at scale. You’ll work with Docker and Kubernetes to run and orchestrate applications, while also using IAM, Cloud Storage, and Monitoring to manage access, data, and performance. The result: a clearer view of how the right mix of containers, automation, and observability keeps modern applications fast, resilient, and efficient.
Complete the intermediate Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge course to demonstrate skills in text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. In this course, you learn Gemini prompting, test Streamlit apps in Cloud Shell, and deploy them as Docker containers in Cloud Run. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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.
Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API.
Building and running applications on Google Cloud can take many forms—and this adventure brings them together. Get hands-on with App Engine, Cloud Run, Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine as you deploy applications, manage scaling, and explore modern architectures, including the shift from monolithic to microservices.
Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.
Securing applications and streamlining delivery go hand in hand in modern cloud environments. In this trail, you’ll work with tools like Cloud KMS, Identity-Aware Proxy, and service accounts to manage access and protect resources. You’ll also explore private Kubernetes clusters, artifact management, and build CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build—bringing together the essentials of cloud security and DevOps in practice.
Earn an introductory skill badge by completing the Implement Cloud Collaboration and Productivity Workflows course, where you will get introduced to Google's collaborative platform and learn to use Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Drive, Sheets, and AppSheet.
This video covers prompt engineering fundamentals for effective AI communication. Learn a simple framework (Persona, Task, Context, Format) to craft clear prompts, getting better, faster results from Gemini in Google Workspace. Discover how to use natural language, be specific, and iterate for optimal AI assistance.
This video covers how to use NotebookLM as a personal research assistant by adding sources, asking questions, and generating new content formats based on your documents.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
A season to build, experiment, and grow—one skill at a time. You’ll start with the fundamentals of networking, creating the foundation that connects everything together. From there, you’ll step into automation and application development using Cloud Scheduler, App Engine, and machine learning APIs. By the end, you’ll have a more confident, hands-on understanding of how modern applications are built, connected, and run on the cloud.
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.
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.
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.
This course covers how to use Gemini in Google Docs to streamline your writing and content creation. Learn to draft documents from scratch, refine writing tone and clarity with interactive tools, summarize complex files, and seamlessly transform long-form text into structured assets for other Google Workspace applications. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
This course covers how to use Gemini in Gmail to optimize your email management. Learn to summarize lengthy threads, retrieve information using natural language, draft professional responses, and organize communication strategies directly inside your inbox. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Google Workspace with Gemini provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. Here, you will learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency. Continue building your skills in the full Google Workspace with Gemini learning path, and explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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 Agent Ready (GEAR) program.