Matthew Hooson
Member since 2021
Gold League
5749 points
Edit images with Imagen
Earned Oca 2, 2026 EST
Deploy and Evaluate Model Garden Models
Earned Oca 2, 2026 EST
Find, Explore and Deploy Model Garden Models
Earned Ara 5, 2025 EST
Generate and Edit Media in Agent Platform
Earned Ara 5, 2025 EST
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use
Earned Ara 4, 2025 EST
Empower Gen AI Apps with Tool Use
Earned Ara 3, 2025 EST
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models
Earned Ara 3, 2025 EST
Deploy an Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Ara 1, 2025 EST
Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Earned Kas 27, 2025 EST
Explore Google's Gen AI Models
Earned Kas 7, 2025 EST
Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud
Earned Haz 14, 2025 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations
Earned Tem 28, 2023 EDT
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud
Earned Tem 27, 2023 EDT
Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Tem 23, 2023 EDT
Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Tem 23, 2023 EDT
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud
Earned Tem 22, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Earned Tem 21, 2023 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PDE Exam Prep
Earned Tem 20, 2023 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud
Earned Tem 18, 2023 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Tem 9, 2023 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Earned Tem 8, 2023 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Earned Nis 26, 2023 EDT
Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts.
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 the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!
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In this skill bagde, you will demonstrate your ability to use and compare models available in the Vertex AI Model Garden. You'll deploy a model to a Vertex AI Endpoint, query other models via their API, and use Vertex AI's Gen AI evaluation service to measure the performance of multiple models.
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Model Garden on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is a model library that helps you discover, test, and deploy models from Google and Google partners. Learn how to explore the available models and select the right ones for your use case. And how to deploy and interact with Model Garden models through the Google Cloud console and APIs.
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This course dives into the world of media creation with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform using Nano Banana and Veo. Learn to design text and image-based prompts to produce high-quality, consistent images, and captivating, cinematic video clips. You'll also learn to refine generated assets using core editing functions. Finally, this course guides you through multi-tool workflow implementations for creative control and consistency, empowering you to transform images into video clips and leverage Gemini for prompt writing assistance and feedback.
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Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to take actions such as sending an email.
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 the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"
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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.
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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models
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In this challenge lab, you will demonstrate your ability to author agents using Agent Development Kit (ADK), deploy those agents to Agent Engine, and use them from a web app. Complete the challenge lab to earn a Google Cloud skill badge.
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In this course, you’ll learn to use the Google Agent Development Kit to build complex, multi-agent systems. You will build agents equipped with tools, and connect them with parent-child relationships and flows to define how they interact. You’ll run your agents locally and deploy them to Agent Runtime on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to run as a managed agentic flow, with infrastructure decisions and resource scaling handled by Agent Runtime.
Please note these labs are based off a pre-released version of this product. There may be some lag on these labs as we provide maintenance updates.
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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.
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In this course, you learn about data engineering on Google Cloud, the roles and responsibilities of data engineers, and how those map to offerings provided by Google Cloud. You also learn about ways to address data engineering challenges.
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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.
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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.
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In this course you will get hands-on in order to work through real-world challenges faced when building streaming data pipelines. The primary focus is on managing continuous, unbounded data with Google Cloud products.
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In this intermediate course, you will learn to design, build, and optimize robust batch data pipelines on Google Cloud. Moving beyond fundamental data handling, you will explore large-scale data transformations and efficient workflow orchestration, essential for timely business intelligence and critical reporting.
Get hands-on practice using Dataflow for Apache Beam and Serverless for Apache Spark (Dataproc Serverless) for implementation, and tackle crucial considerations for data quality, monitoring, and alerting to ensure pipeline reliability and operational excellence. A basic knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud concepts is recommended.
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While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.
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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Data 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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Welcome to the two-part course on Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud. The core operations tools in Google Cloud break down into two major categories. The operations-focused components and the application performance management tools. This course, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, covers the operations-focused components including Logging, Monitoring, and Service Monitoring. After taking this course, it is suggested that you complete part 2, Observability in Google Cloud, to learn about the available application performance management tools.
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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud.
The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.
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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.
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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
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