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

• 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

Articles

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

• Latest Article = 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

• 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

Open Source

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

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