Rajesh Shanmugasundaram
Member since 2019
Bronze League
12076 points
Build with Gemini
Earned Sep 28, 2026 EDT
Evaluate and Improve Agent Development Kit Agents
Earned Sep 25, 2026 EDT
Deploy an Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Sep 25, 2026 EDT
Accelerate Development with Antigravity
Earned Sep 19, 2026 EDT
Migrate Virtual Machines to Google Cloud
Earned Jun 5, 2026 EDT
Implement a Landing Zone and Observability
Earned Jun 2, 2026 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Earned Jan 29, 2025 EST
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques
Earned Jan 21, 2025 EST
[DEPRECATED] Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps
Earned Jan 17, 2025 EST
Generative AI Explorer : Vertex AI
Earned Jan 10, 2025 EST
Working with Notebooks in Vertex AI
Earned Jan 8, 2025 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Sep 11, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 21, 2023 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Mar 14, 2023 EDT
Deploy and Manage Apigee X
Earned Feb 24, 2023 EST
API Development with the Apigee API Platform
Earned Dec 30, 2022 EST
Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud with Anthos
Earned Nov 23, 2022 EST
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Nov 17, 2022 EST
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Nov 16, 2022 EST
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Earned Oct 25, 2022 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Earned Oct 25, 2022 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads
Earned Jun 29, 2022 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Mar 1, 2022 EST
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation - Locales
Earned Feb 11, 2022 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Feb 3, 2022 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Earned Oct 17, 2021 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production
Earned Feb 9, 2021 EST
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads
Earned Feb 4, 2021 EST
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations
Earned Feb 1, 2021 EST
Google Cloud Architecture: Design Principles
Earned Jan 29, 2021 EST
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Earned Jan 28, 2021 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Earned Jan 27, 2021 EST
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Dec 22, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero: Application Development Proficient
Earned Nov 30, 2019 EST
Cloud Hero: Application Development
Earned Nov 29, 2019 EST
This is intended for individuals who completed the Build with Gemini workshop to validate the knowledge gained in that workship and earn a Skill Badge
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Complete the Evaluate and Improve Agent Development Kit Agents skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use ADK's evaluation tools to "hill climb" — making measurable, iterative improvements to an agent. You will run an initial evaluation to establish a baseline, apply optimization techniques, and re-evaluate the agent to measure your success.
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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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Complete the Accelerate Development with Antigravity skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in using the Antigravity IDE for developing agentic workflows. You will be tasked with configuring an MCP server, authoring custom agent skills and rules, prototyping with the Agents CLI, and deploying to the Google Cloud Agent Runtime.
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 course, you follow the full application modernization journey. You start by lifting and shifting a web application to a virtual machine, then evolve the architecture by containerizing the application for Kubernetes orchestration, and finally deploy it to a serverless platform.
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In this course, you will learn how to architect, secure, and operate a production-ready Google Cloud environment. Moving beyond basic infrastructure deployment, you will utilize Infrastructure as Code modules to untilize best practices and automate the creation of a secure Landing Zone establishing the necessary projects, networks, and IAM hierarchies with consistency and speed.
You will ensure operational excellence by defining baseline guardrails, such as quotas and log retention policies, and configuring automated alerts to detect security and configuration violations immediately. Finally, you will implement full-stack observability by creating custom dashboards in Cloud Monitoring and instrumenting your Virtual Machines and applications with Cloud Ops agents and OpenTelemetry. By the end of this course, you will have the skills to build a cloud foundation that is not only secure by default but also fully observable.
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This course introduces Google Cloud's AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, with a focus on developing both generative and predictive AI projects. It explores the various technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI lifecycle, empowering data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers to enhance their expertise through interactive exercises.
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Text Prompt Engineering Techniques introduces you to consider different strategic approaches & techniques to deploy when writing prompts for text-based generative AI tasks.
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This course on Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps is composed of a set of labs to give you a hands on experience to interacting with new Generative AI technologies. You will learn how to create end-to-end search and conversational experiences by following examples. These technologies complement predefined intent-based chat experiences created in Dialogflow with LLM-based, generative answers that can be based on your own data. Also, they allow you to porvide enterprise-grade search experiences for internal and external websites to search documents, structure data and public websites.
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This content is deprecated. Please see the latest version of the course, here.
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This course is an introduction to Vertex AI Notebooks, which are Jupyter notebook-based environments that provide a unified platform for the entire machine learning workflow, from data preparation to model deployment and monitoring. The course covers the following topics: (1) The different types of Vertex AI Notebooks and their features and (2) How to create and manage Vertex AI Notebooks.
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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 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 the intermediate skill badge by completing the Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud skill badge course where you learn how to use Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. You interact with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, Cloud Run, and GKE. This course teaches you how to build continuous integration pipelines, store and secure artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, attest to the validity of approved releases. Additionally, you get hands-on experience deploying applications to both GKE and Cloud Run.
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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Apigee X skill badge course, where you learn about the Apigee X architecture, how to provision an Apigee X organization within a Google Cloud project, the management of Apigee X using the Apigee API and UI, and the use of Cloud Armor and Apigee threat protection policies to protect your APIs.
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In this course, you learn how to create APIs that utilize multiple services and how you can use custom code on Apigee. You will also learn about fault handling, and how to share logic between proxies. You learn about traffic management and caching. You also create a developer portal, and publish your API to the portal. You learn about logging and analytics, as well as CI/CD and the different deployment models supported by Apigee.
Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform.
This is the third and final course of the Developing APIs with the Apigee API Platform course series.
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Course one of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud with Anthos series introduces participants to manage multi-cloud and hybrid Kubernetes deployments using Anthos. Through presentations and hands-on labs, participants explore planning and creating Anthos environments and building manageable and reliable multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure environments centered around Anthos and containers. This course is a continuation of Architecting with GKE and assumes direct experience with the technologies covered in that course.
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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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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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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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In "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Workloads", you'll embark on a comprehensive journey into cloud-native application development. Throughout the learning experience, you'll explore Kubernetes operations, deployment management, GKE networking, and persistent storage. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Production course.
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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 course version is for non-English only. If you wish to take this course in English, please enroll here: Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation. If you wish to take it in another language, change your language in settings to see availability.
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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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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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In this course, you'll learn about Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security; logging and monitoring; and using Google Cloud managed storage and database services from within GKE.
This is the second course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process course or the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos course.
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In "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Workloads", you'll embark on a comprehensive journey into cloud-native application development. Throughout the learning experience, you'll explore Kubernetes operations, deployment management, GKE networking, and persistent storage. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Production course.
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In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations," you get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes.
This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads course.
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In this course, you’ll learn how to apply the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework to design resilient, production-grade cloud environments. You’ll analyze real-world challenges across six distinct industries to balance competing priorities like low-latency performance, ironclad security, and carbon efficiency. By the end, you'll possess a practical architectural playbook and the critical thinking skills needed to lead reviews and optimize cloud workloads in the field.
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Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation.
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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, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.
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Welcome Gamers, Here's a fun opportunity for you to get yourself familiarized with Isitio. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab....and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!
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Have fun with this interesting game and get some hands on Stackdriver, Docker and Python. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!
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