Welcome! Let's get to know each other! 👋

[mbala]

To kick things off and help us all connect, we'd love for you to introduce yourself!

A little about what we're hoping to foster here:

This forum is all about collaboration and shared learning. Whether you're deep in the trenches optimizing inference, just starting to explore fine-tuning with NeMo, or architecting the next big AI solution on Google Cloud with NVIDIA GPUs, your experiences and questions are valuable.

Let's break the ice! Tell us a bit about yourself

• What's your role? (e.g., AI/ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer, Data Scientist, Researcher, Developer, Student, etc.)
• What kind of projects are you working on, or what are you hoping to learn/achieve using Google Cloud and NVIDIA technologies? (No need for super specifics if it's confidential, but a general idea is great!)
• What are you most excited about in the world of AI, LLMs, or accelerated computing right now?
• Is there a particular challenge you're hoping this community can help you solve? (Or perhaps a success story you'd be willing to share down the line?)
• Anything else you'd like to share? (e.g., favorite AI tool, a recent "aha!" moment, what you're hoping to contribute to the community)

To get the ball rolling, I can start:

"Hi everyone! I'm Bala, a Product Manager on the Google Developer Program team, passionate about making developer tools more accessible. I'm really excited about the potential of combining the best of NVIDIA's technologies with Google Cloud's to build applications serving a variety of needs. I'm here to help answer questions, connect you with resources, and learn alongside all of you. Looking forward to seeing how we can all push the boundaries of what's possible!"

Don't be shy! The more we share, the richer and more helpful this community will become.

[smithakolan]

Hi everyone! I'm Smitha, a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud team. I'm passionate about making powerful AI tools more accessible. Like Bala, I'm incredibly excited about the potential of bringing together NVIDIA's accelerated computing and Google Cloud's scale to build innovative LLM applications.

My goal is to help you find answers, share valuable resources, and learn together as we explore what's next.

[Jermil2990]

Hi Smitha its great to meet you!

[rmjensen20]

Hi! I'm Robbie from the NVIDIA Developer Program team. My mission is to make it as easy as possible to get started and build something amazing with the latest developer tools. I'm personally really interested in how generative AI can be used in 3D content creation, like assets for video games or movies. I'm here to help you find resources, experts, and tools for success. Can't wait to connect and building this community together! 

[jpilomia]

Hello there! I'm Janaina, part of the NVIDIA Developer Program team. I am passionate about great developer experience, and I look forward to hearing from you all on how to make our tech and learning materials more accessible. I look forward to hearing about the good, the bad, and the ugly as you skill up on NVIDIA & Google Cloud!

[donmccasland]

Hey folks,

I'm Don McCasland and I manage the Cloud Developer Relations teams covering AI Infrastructure and Security.  Most of my career before now was across developer operations for everything from IOT (Nest Labs) to gaming to cellular hardware.  I am deeply interested in platform engineering and how the AI workloads make that especially fun!

[Or_Manor]

Interesting 🤔 

[ilnardo92]

Hello there 👋

So excited to join this new community!

My name is Ivan, and I'm an AI/ML Developer Advocate with the Vertex AI team at Google Cloud. And I'm here to help you find the answers and resources you need to build and use AI with NVIDIA GPUs on Vertex AI. 

What are some of the challenges or projects you're currently working on? I'd love to hear about what you're trying to achieve. 

Looking forward to connecting and being a part of this community!

[achlenov]

Hi Ivan! Can we connect? I am planning on building an organic chemistry model using Vertex to implement an autonomous chemical synthesizer with a built-in AI chip.

[ShirMeirLador]

Hello everyone! 👋

So excited to join you all! I'm Shir Meir Lador, and I lead the AI Developer Relations team at Google Cloud. I'm here to help ensure you have the resources and support you need to unlock the full potential of Google Cloud for your AI development.

My background is in building and leading AI teams, focusing on areas like document understanding, financial applications, security and fraud.

What are some of the exciting AI projects you're currently diving into, or perhaps challenges you're looking to solve? We'd love to hear what you're aiming to achieve.

Looking forward to connecting with you all and helping you build amazing things with NVIDIA and Google Cloud!

[ShirMeirLador]

Hello everyone! 👋

So excited to join you all! I'm Shir Meir Lador, and I lead the AI Developer Relations team at Google Cloud. I'm here to help ensure you have the resources and support you need to unlock the full potential of Google Cloud for your AI development.

My background is in building and leading AI teams, focusing on areas like document understanding, financial applications, security and fraud.

What are some of the exciting AI projects you're currently diving into, or perhaps challenges you're looking to solve? We'd love to hear what you're aiming to achieve.

Looking forward to connecting with you all and helping you build amazing things with NVIDIA and Google Cloud!

[achlenov]

Thank you! I sent you a connection request on LinkedIn

[zlo]

Hi! 😀 I'm Zach from the NVIDIA Developer Community Team, currently focused on inference - accelerated computing and deployment at scale. I'm excited to connect with this global developer community to drive innovation, education, and collaboration—helping developers succeed with Google Cloud & NVIDIA technologies. I'm especially passionate about learning how we can support and accelerate your workflows. With a background in computer graphics, I’m drawn to GenAI and how inference powers everything from real-time assistants to recommendation systems and autonomous vehicles.

[achlenov]

Thank you, Zach! I wonder if you might have an interest in autonomous chemical synthesizers 🙂

[VikramTiwari]

Hah! First non team member!

Hi folks! Vikram here. I am a ML engineer working on search problems and building AI agents. Looking forward to meeting other folks and see what you all are working on. Find me on linkedin at linkedin.com/in/vikramtiwari

Cheers!

[Jermil2990]

Checking you out on linkedIn! 

[achlenov]

Thanks, Vikram! I'll send you an invite on LinkedIn. We are working on a generative search product for organic chemists. Let's discuss when you have time.

[roya90]

Hi everyone! I’m Roya, a Google Developer Expert in Generative AI and an AI Scientist passionate about building responsible, scalable systems—and educating my community along the way. I’ve been working on multi-agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and fine-tuning LLMs using Google Cloud and NVIDIA technologies. I’m especially excited about how Gemini Flash and accelerated computing are making AI more accessible and efficient. My mission is to help build AI that benefits everyone, and I’m here to learn, share, and grow with this incredible community. Looking forward to what we’ll create together!

[ayates]

Hey folks - I'm part of our partner ecosystem development team at Thoughtworks, a Workspace GDE, and I have a long (but somewhat lapsed) history in the AI space. I've been spending time over the past few months catching myself back up again, in both Google Skillsboost and NVIDIA DLI - and am really excited to see these communities now coming together! cheers!

[TNT]

Hello Folks;

Nomtha here, I'm a GDE in Cloud, AI. 

[demeke]

Hi! 👋 I'm Chris, a Product Manager on the Google team. I'm thrilled to be part of this Google Cloud & NVIDIA partnership and am looking forward to connecting with you!

[miteshp]

Hi! I am Mitesh and I lead the developer advocate team at NVIDIA. I enjoy explaining complex technologies in a simplified way. Looking forward to contributing to this partnership,

[nvjayrodge]

Hi all! I’m Jay Rodge, Developer Advocate for LLMs at NVIDIA, where I help demonstrate how developers can leverage GPU acceleration in their LLM processes, using tools and frameworks that are widely used by the developer community. I’m passionate about reasoning, inference optimizations that slash latency, and making advanced AI accessible on GPUs to every developer. I’m here to share battle-tested best practices, learn from your own GPU-acceleration challenges, and together push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

[will-nvidia]

Hola! I am Will, a developer advocate with NVIDIA. I enjoy creating and watching demos that generalize, simplify, and accelerate ML , AI, and Data Science. I enjoy collaborating in the domain of big, messy real-world data science and quantitative problems. Ain't no community like a developer community.

[rubenmejiac]

Hi, I'm Ruben, a tech professional since the '90s with experience in software development, analytics, databases, cloud computing and now getting into AI, ML and data science.
It's a pleasure to be part of this new and exciting community.

[vyoumanstech]

hello from Miami Beach Florida, USA.   I am mostly a golang DevOps engineer and AWS arch. Also doing RUST.  Just finished a Project in Irvine Cal and taking a couple months off.  Doing some personal research and possibly a Startup.   NVDA is on my short list to study.  My past includes Industrial, HealthTech, FinTech and a lot of automation and logistics.  Lately mostly Proof of Concepts and rescues.    I have C++ skills, but immediate objective today is discovering pathway to get hardware and best study material.  Anyone looking for a recruit to give some tasks... consider me please if there is some learning/mentoring potential.   Anyone have tips on what sort hardware?

[GuiltyTrex1]

I am in Miami Beach <PII Removed by Staff>, nice to meet you! 

[achlenov]

We should talk. Our first product is a generative search driven by a new chemistry model and a second product an autonomous chemical synthesizer. Please look me up at www.linkedin.com/in/achlenov

[aayush_bari]

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Aayush Bari, a GCP & AI Developer. Thrilled to be part of this groundbreaking initiative where Google Cloud meets NVIDIA—two tech powerhouses redefining the future of AI and ML infrastructure. As a developer focused on scaling intelligent systems and optimizing cloud-native deployments, I’m here to share, learn, and collaborate with like-minded innovators.

I'm particularly interested in:
⚙️ Efficient model training with GPU/TPU acceleration
🌐 Building portable AI workloads using Terraform + GCP
🧠 Leveraging NVIDIA’s SDKs (like TensorRT, CUDA) in production pipelines
🔐 Security and scalability in ML Ops

[gawbul]

Hi, I’m Steve 👋 I’m an SRE based in the UK working on using generative AI to help drive efficiencies in the energy industry to move us towards zero carbon living. I’m really excited to see what we can achieve using Google Cloud and NVIDIA technologies. In particular how accelerated computing can enable faster training of AI models, improved AI inference, and greater efficiency in a variety of AI applications. I’m looking forward to being involved in the community and hoping to gain the benefit of its collective experience.

[dhirajpatra]

• What's your role? Software Enterprise Architect, AI, ML, GenAI Engineer, Data Scientist, Researcher, Developer, and WQU MSc in Financial Engineering Student
• What kind of projects are you working on, or what are you hoping to learn/achieve using Google Cloud and NVIDIA technologies? Currently working on BNY Risk Engine team for AI/GenAI based application and data analytics. Personally engage to voluntarily help students and startups around the globe to solve their AI, ML, GenAI, ioT, Robotics products.
• What are you most excited about in the world of AI, LLMs, or accelerated computing right now? Looking to work with JAX for more parallelism in lower level and put less dependency on GPU. Agentic AI with different problem solving using my 29 years of software engineering experiences as well.
• Is there a particular challenge you're hoping this community can help you solve? I want to build solutions for real life problem which will be useful and sustainable solutions. Here we can share knowledge and get the help for problem we are working on for bigger social community.
• Anything else you'd like to share? I love to learn from all of you.

[rabimba]

It seems like I can be the one to break the ice!
So here I am (from Google I/O! right now!)

Hi everyone!

I'm Rabimba Karanjai, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston, a Google Developer Expert (AI & Cloud), and a Google Cloud Champion Innovator (AI & ML) & Research Innovator.

I'm passionate about leveraging LLMs with Google Cloud and NVIDIA tech for secure code generation and AI reasoning. My work focuses on making AI more reliable, including projects on LLM-assisted code translation and confidential AI, aiming to harness the power of tools like Gemini, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

I'm excited by AI's rapid progress in understanding and generating code and the drive for more trustworthy models. I believe combining Google Cloud's AI/ML strengths with NVIDIA's hardware is key to solving major challenges. I'm here to discuss breakthroughs in multi-agent LLMs, mitigating AI hallucinations, and building robust AI solutions, and collaborate with anyone who is interested (academically and otherwise). I look forward to sharing insights, learning from you all, and collectively pushing the boundaries of AI!

Some of my works.

[rajil]

Hi I'm Rajil

Student in Data Science / Comp Science and eager to learn more about AI tools, GCP  and Nvidia Program.

[dhirajpatra]

https://developers.google.com/learn/pathways

You can check my blog as well https://dhirajpatra.blogspot.com 

[rajil]

I will...thanks !

[rajamannar]

I am an AI Engineer working in HealthCare, Legal and Finance industries( pretty much those industries which are heavily regulated). I want to learn a lot from you . 

[Mestiv]

Hey everyone! I'm Maciej, a Developer Relations Engineer from Warsaw, working mainly in the infrastructure area of Google Cloud 🙂

From interesting things about me, I have 16 cats and I've made the GPU driver installation script for NVIDIA drivers: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-gpu-installation/tree/main/linux - it may help you with setting up your VMs with the newest drivers and CUDA Toolkit in a way that works with Secure Boot!

I hope this community will help me come up with good ideas to how we can improve the developer experience in GCP in the infrastructure part 🙂

[gabya06]

Hi Maciej! I’m not sure if you’re serious about the 16 cats, but I do have 2 cats 🐱 In any case, I build a cat breeds app - this is my first time deploying Streamlit to Cloud Run. In case you  have hundreds of cat pictures like I do, you can upload a picture or two and try to determine the breed of your cats!

I’m not making any promises on the accuracy of the models (still needs work) but feel free to give it a try 😁

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[dputers]

Hi! My name is David and I am an aspiring student. I understand this is new technology and everyone is on equal footing when it comes to learning about these new AI tools. I hope to learn how to solve high cost of real estate through nvidia and google hardware and software. 

[satishchhatpar]

I am Satish from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. I am a DevOps Engineer. I am passionate about food and cooking. I am here to learn and apply the knowledge to improve my cloud kitchen and make money.

[dhirajpatra]

Sure Satish, interesting. You can connect me if I can help you any way.