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

It is important to work in detail and deep dive technologies that are dangerous and potentially catastrophic to the Human Race. Expanding on this - I think those of us who are empathetic (Most humans) must understand and maintain control of technologies that are generally feared and powerful. These technologies include Nanotechnology, Genetics, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (both the statistical engine kind and the SSI/AGI kind). As in there are no black boxes. 20251229

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelobrien-developer/

Certificates

20260211 - all 14 Google Cloud Certificates

• PSOE - Google Certified Professional Security Operations Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/616b314f-e17f-4bcb-aef5-4de9ac27dd4d
• GDA - Google Data Associate - https://www.credly.com/badges/1a7f3b48-5d5f-4b6a-a316-39bd4d380211
• GWA - Google Workspace Associate - https://www.credly.com/badges/eadd68c6-ae8b-4527-94ba-78b06d03308e
• ACE - Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/7b314aaa-2ff4-41bc-a5f3-bc172280ea58
• PCA - Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect - https://www.credly.com/badges/65f83c1c-94ad-47c3-97b8-3899571b2893
• GAIL - Google Certified Generative AI Leader - https://www.credly.com/badges/1524ec69-c83a-49aa-a67a-2ee5d0b75d0e
• PMLE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Machine Learning Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/829da75d-8964-48d3-83a4-01212f358e1c
• PDBE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Database Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/7437b99b-6c69-4d08-b155-21be874f0de8
• PDE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Data Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/b067a100-03b0-45b1-b363-ca3fcbdc3bf8
• PCDE - Google Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/61099b91-c794-4f63-947f-8e89b24896b0
• PCSE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/c63222e4-ae76-4871-b8c7-14150d3a413c
• PCNE - Google Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer - https://www.credly.com/badges/c9f0e726-1536-4549-bfe9-080da3e28c0c
• PCD - Google Certified Professional Cloud Developer - https://www.credly.com/badges/e160d82f-9765-40ae-99f2-3c53c7fd68b2
• AWS-SAP - AWS Solution Architect Professional - https://www.credly.com/badges/4aa1c878-bd30-45d6-b822-44ee4df4301f
• AWS-SAA - AWS Solution Architect Associate - https://www.credly.com/badges/3e9dfcb6-cee3-455d-a0e0-ecddc2ae7380
• CNCF Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate - https://ti-user-certificates.s3.amazonaws.com/e0df7fbf-a057-42af-8a1f-590912be5460/73169bc8-7b58-4eae-983c-25405d25f2a7-frank-michael-obrien-847a8f7e-d39b-4944-92e5-c1bd10b15dd8-certificate.pdf
• CNCF Kubernetes & Cloud Native Security Associate - https://www.credly.com/badges/ab9e6146-2df5-47eb-ac77-da6f789b2665
• Partner Certification https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/partner-learning/renew-your-google-cloud-certification

Articles

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

• Latest Articles

• https://obrienlabs.medium.com/running-reasoning-llms-like-the-deepseek-r1-70b-43g-locally-for-private-offline-air-gapped-259fa437da8f

• 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

• LLMs - Yes and Why?

• 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

• https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/pbmm-on-gcp-onboarding/blob/gh357-tef-v4-fork/z_2024_v020_pre_tef_v4/docs/google-cloud-security-controls.md

• see GCP docs - https://github.com/ObrienlabsDev/blog/blob/main/google-cloud-onboarding.md#gcp-organization-deletion

Open Source

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

Markdown

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Feature to Technology coverage mapping

graph LR;
  f1["create"];
  f2["read"];
  f3["update"];
  f4["delete"];
  f5["search"];

  tGFE["GFE"];
  t2["webapp"];
  t3["REST API Server"];
  t4["Sharded DB"];
  t5["Bigquery"];

  f1 --> tGFE;
  f2 --> tGFE;
  f3 --> tGFE;
  f4 --> tGFE;
  f5 --> tGFE;
  f2 --> t2;
  f3 --> t3;
  f5 --> t5;

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graph LR;
  n1["Design"];
  n2["Implementation"];
  n3["Code Review"];
  n4["Merge"];
  n5["Research"];
  n1 -->|hand-off| n2;
  n2 -->|PR| n3;
  n3 -->|ok| n4;
  n1 --> n5;
  n5 -->|feedback| n1;

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graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

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https://github.com/ObrienlabsDev/biometric-android-app/issues/8

graph TD
    subgraph iPhone Client
        A[Sensor Manager  Core Motion] --> B[Data Batching - ProtoBuf] ;
        B --> C[MQTT Client];
        B --> D[HTTP/3 Client];
    end

    subgraph Backend Infrastructure
        E[MQTT Broker  EMQX, VerneMQ] --> G[Message Bus];
        F[HTTP/3 Gateway  ] --> G;
        G --> H[Stream Processors];
        H --> I[Time-Series Database];
        H --> J[API & Dashboard];
    end

    C -- MQTT (High-frequency data) --> E;
    D -- HTTP/3 (Commands, metadata) --> F;

    style A fill:#cde4ff
    style I fill:#d5e8d4

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Quotes

• "The mystery is in the questions" - Matt Galloway 20250129