Abdelrahman Omran

For the first time since ages, Google have launched event series in multiple Saudi Arabia and Bahrain cities in two consecutive weeks called “Google Developers Roadshow”, and I had the pleasure to be speaking at Riyadh, Taif, Jeddah, Medina, Khobar at Saudi Arabia, and Manama at Bahrain in a row, with over 2k attendees, covering six cities in total, in eight days (goo.gl/CwzhjV)

→ State of the Web ’18
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh → April 21st, 2018 (108 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Taif → April 22nd, 2018 (145 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah → April 24th, 2018 (390 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Medina → April 25th, 2018 (450 attendees)

→ Google Cloud Platform Introduction ’18
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh → April 21st, 2018 (108 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Khobar → April 28th, 2018 (541 attendees)

→ Building Conversational Experiences for Google Assistant ’18
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh → April 21st, 2018 (108 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Taif → April 22nd, 2018 (145 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah → April 24th, 2018 (390 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Medina → April 25th, 2018 (450 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Khobar → April 28th, 2018 (541 attendees)
Bahrain, Manama → April 28th, 2018 (200 attendees)

→ State of the Web ’18 (20+ attendees)
Google Dubai Office, Dubai, Emirates / Apr. 16, 2018 (goo.gl/mt3Lrc)
In this small meetup organized by GDG Dubai at Google Dubai office, we talked about the importance of PWA, and the great changes happening to the web platform, and how that opens a lot of opportunities for all kinds and scales of applications. We discussed also the challenges facing web engineers, and how today’s open platform is evolving very fast.

→ Women Tech Makers (WTM) Helwan (20+ attendees)
Berisca Office, Cairo, Egypt / Mar. 30, 2018 (goo.gl/koQep8)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Cairo #2 (50+ attendees)
Mushtarak coworking space, Cairo, Egypt / Mar. 24, 2018 (goo.gl/uj5KGd)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Helwan (30+ attendees)
302 Labs coworking space, Cairo, Egypt / Mar. 09, 2018 (goo.gl/D7dBze)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Alexandria (30+ attendees)
Alexandria Software and IT Association (ASITA), Alexandria, Egypt / Mar. 03, 2018 (goo.gl/cyLjbG)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) October #2 (44+ attendees)
Hashtags coworking space, October City, Egypt / Feb. 23, 2018 (goo.gl/jYN3QL)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) October #2 (34+ attendees)
Hashtags coworking space, October City, Egypt / Feb. 16, 2018 (goo.gl/xvzAmw)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Cairo #1 (20+ attendees)
Mushtarak coworking space, Cairo, Egypt / Feb. 03, 2018 (goo.gl/XGH7u9)

Anyone can listen to sessions at many events, or watch such sessions even recorded on Youtube, but what’s better is to have an expert in certain topic guide and mentor students in hands-on code labs and step-by-step work-through study jam. In these Cloud Study Jams we’re thrilled to train bunch of enthusiastic developers on Google Cloud Platform and give them access to priceless training resources for free. Attendees learnt how to set up development and production environments in the Cloud. The Cloud Study Jam is one of the best events since it’s all about gaining new skills, and get hands-on experience with the help of QwikLabs.

Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt / Speaker / Dec. 18, 2017 (goo.gl/sUcbaX | goo.gl/FBbKoG)
I’ve spoken to 85+ attendees about Google Assistant, and how to develop for it using Action on Google Console. In its 7th iteration, and during Alexandria University Platinum jubilee, the “ICT in Our Lives” international conference has been organized at faculty of commerce, and I gave a specialized session about Google Assistant, the voice commands and its importance in our lives, and how to develop for it using Actions on Google. I did a quick demo too on Google Home for more expressive and inclusive experience.

American University – Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon / Speaker / Nov. 25, 2017 (goo.gl/t9abZ8 | goo.gl/x4GQrb)
I’ve spoken to 365+ attendees about Progressive Web Apps and Google Assistant. For the first time in Lebanon, GDG Coast Lebanon held their first DevFest ever with elite group of speakers, and precisely selected topics that serve their audience best, and thank god they achieved a great success, and got amazing feedback. I gave two sessions that day, first about Progressive Web Apps, and the second about developing for Google Assistant which was really great.

THE GrEEK CAMPUS / Speaker / Nov. 11, 2017 (goo.gl/6m6o2w | photos)
I’ve spoken to 285+ attendees in two sessions about Dialogflow/Google Assistant, and Progressive Web Apps. For the first time ever, Cairo’s GDGs (Cairo / New Cairo / Shorouk) are teaming up to bring an extraordinary and a unique experience during the annual GDG DevFest Cairo 2017, making their fifth GDG DevFest exceptional at all levels.

Information Technology Institute (ITI) Smart Village, Cairo, Egypt / Speaker / Oct. 13, 2017 (goo.gl/zeMk5u | goo.gl/Z1oSnm)
I’ve spoken to 600+ attendees about Dialogflow, Google Assistant, Google Actions, ran a live demo on Google Home, and done a quick Dialogflow workshop. Google Developer Group and women techmakers 6 October city, organized GDG DevFest’17 for the third time in a row. GDG DevFest an annual event hosted by Google to highlight the latest in technology, product innovation and initiatives. The event had diversified talks by multiple speakers on a multi-track parallel sessions, about Google Assistant, Android, Kotlin, Machine Learning, UX, and few other supporting talks about startups, WTM initiatives.

Information Technology Institute (ITI) Smart Village, Cairo, Egypt / Speaker / Sep. 23/24, 2017 (goo.gl/y50lbG)
I’ve spoken to almost 1800+ attendees over two consecutive days. I talked about how Google Assistant gives users their own personal Google that helps them find, organize, and get things done in their world, and how easily we as developers can develop Apps that extends Google Assistant by building actions that let users get things done with our products and services. I gave two more sessions at the conference, one for quick web updates that give something like “State of the union” speech about web platform updates during the past year, and the other session was about the amazing experience of Progressive Web Apps, how we could leverage better user experience with reliability, speed, and engagement features in mind. PWA workshops also included, so total of three sessions, and two workshops.

Remote / Judge / 14 Sep. 2017 (tiec.gov.eg/ibtiecar2017)
Reviewed Mobile Track Applications of “IbTIECar2017” Competition, at its 6th round / phase one. I’ve supported the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), by reviewing and evaluating submitted applications and gave them grades according to the judging criteria provided in order to select the most promising projects for the second and final phase of the competition. The competition was launched in cooperation with Multinationals and MCIT affiliated organizations, for university students in technical faculties in the graduation year, recognizing the best graduation projects in the year, covering these tracks: (Embedded Systems, Mobile Applications, IoT for smart cities, Intelligent transportation, Smart buildings and utilities, Communications, IC Design, Data Science, Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing).

Akhbar El Youm Academy, 6th of October City, Egypt / Speaker / July. 08, 2017 (goo.gl/9mGxWZ | goo.gl/XBZ1Kg)
I’ve spoken to 300+ students about Google Assistant, Google Actions, and ran a live demo on Google Home. Google Developer Group and Women Techmakers 6 October city “GDG and WTM 6 October” are excited to announce Google I/O October Extended, for the first time. Google I/O is an annual event hosted by Google to highlight the latest in technology, product innovation and initiatives. This covers exciting topics, beginning with women techmakers initiative and opportunities, Android using Kotlin, Machine Learning, AI to WeaveIOT (Android of Things), Google Assistant and more.

Information Technology Institute, Alexandria, Egypt / Mentor / May. 06, 2017 (goo.gl/dt3AzD | goo.gl/eTUrwm)
I’ve mentored 15+ learners on Full Stack technologies, as part of MCIT initiative of supplying inclusive network of study groups for Udacity’s Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree. That’s part of a series of mentoring sessions across eight months. Helping learners engage in study groups through an initiative that offers a blended learning environment by facilitating study groups for learners so that they get engaged with other learners and get coaching and mentorship within their geographical area through a national network of study group mentors and project reviewers. We help them enhance their career with their newly acquired technical skills. Whether they target to create their own startup or advance to another career, they can rely on this initiative to support their career aspirations.

Information Technology Institute, Alexandria, Egypt / Mentor / Apr. 08, 2017 (goo.gl/dt3AzD | goo.gl/eTUrwm)
I’ve mentored 15+ learners on Full Stack technologies, as part of MCIT initiative of supplying inclusive network of study groups for Udacity’s Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree. That’s part of a series of mentoring sessions across eight months. This program will prepare learners for a job as a Full Stack Web Developer, and teach them to build complex server-side web applications that use powerful relational databases to persistently store data. They learn to build applications that can support any front-end, and scale to support hundreds of thousands of users.

M3mal Coworking Space / Speaker / March. 29th, 2017 (goo.gl/hsdv2H)
I’ve spoken to 30+ attendees about Amazon Web Services, why and how to get started with scalable applications on AWS cloud. As part of M3mal Coworking Space info session to introduce Amazon Web Services to the community, I’ve been part of the efforts and one of the speakers to explain it for the audience in plain english. During the session, we explained an overview about the many services in AWS, shown a quick demo on how to setup a scalable web application on AWS using EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, and CodeDeploy, and finally held a QA session.

Minia University, Egypt / Trainer / On 13-16 February 2017 (goo.gl/67CHWZ)
For a four consecutive days, I’ve trained 30+ students on web development and specifically the PHP programing language. The Challenge Camp​ organized by IEEE Minia University​, and had multiple tracks including web and mobile tracks. It was my first and not last training in upper Egypt, with overall positive results, so thanks to the university and organizers for hosting such educational events, and most importantly thanks to the students who came from far cities to attend the camp, hope you all enjoyed it and got benefit, as I did.

Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City / Speaker / Dec. 07, 2016 (goo.gl/GKNASU)
I’ve trained training 100+ attendees on Progressive Web Apps, as part of Google’s PWA Roadshow in Dubai. Progressive Web Apps are experiences that combine the best of the web and the best of apps. They load quickly, even on flaky networks, can re-engage with users by sending web push notifications, have an icon on the home screen and load as top-level, full screen experiences. Topics delivered includes: 1) Progressive Web Apps: What, Why and How? 2) Service Workers for Instant and Offline Experiences; 3) Deep Engagement: Installable apps and Push Notifications; and finally a codelab / workshop about “Your First Progressive Web App”.

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt / Speaker / Oct. 07, 2016 (goo.gl/gghC2F | goo.gl/AgNWGp)
Spoke to and mentored 150+ attendees on Progressive Web Apps at GDG Alex DevFest (Developers Festival), that has been traditionally defined as a large, multi-track event and CodeLabs that covers a variety of Google Developer products. There are a lot of topics that we’re going to cover this year like Google Polymer, Android, Firebase , PWA and AngularJS 2. The event this year consists of two days, Day 1: Multi-Track Speakers’ sessions and CodeLabds that will cover many fields as outlined above; Day 2: Hackathon (hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, like graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on challenge for a single day, and winners get exclusive prizes. More information on Day 2 will be on Day 1

M3mal Coworking Space, Alexandria, Egypt / Speaker / 09 Sep., 2016 (goo.gl/QslWuH)
Spoke to and mentored 100+ developers about some of the vital topics in software industry, through the focused meetups managed and monitored by M3mal co-working space. We talked about how can we raise the quality standards for our Developers community? Who is responsible for the market distortion from our point of view? How can we make a professional standardization for the community? Are we a good person to communicate with your clients? Can we deal with them easily? How can we set our prices? What is the most important tools for us? how do we reach your clients? To work for yourself OR to work for a corporate, what’s preferred? Local clients or international clients? Is the talent enough to survive? If yes what is the secret? if no, what are the solutions to avoid this?

Monufia, Egypt / Intel Ideation Educator / Aug. 27 — 01 Sep. 2016 (goo.gl/AHXYE8)
Trained 90+ Engineering / Commerce students from Menouf University / Menofia / Organized by TIEC’s InnovEgypt in partnership with Intel Ideation Camp. Egypt Ideation is the first of its kind in Egypt, where student will learn how to generate ideas and to create innovative solutions to some of the greatest problems in Egypt and the world! During the module the student will learn how to become a great innovator and we will give you an important task to solve. As the world needs innovators and entrepreneurs who can create solutions for today’s problems.

Cair, Egypt / Intel Ideation Educator / Jul. 09 – 14, 2016 (goo.gl/94j6je)
Trained 50+ Engineering / Commerce students from Ain Shams University / Cairo / Organized by TIEC’s InnovEgypt in partnership with Intel Ideation Camp. InnovEgypt Program is a training program in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship directed to university students in ICT specializations who are aspiring to be future innovators and entrepreneurs, either through establishing their own innovative start-ups or through manifesting skills that are highly required by local and multinational companies.

Alexandria, Egypt / Mentor / May. 04, 2016 (goo.gl/N9fi1K)

Trained 100+ attendee @ Alexandria Chamber of Commerce / Alexandria. Hack for Alex is the first Hackathon organized by Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) in cooperation with the General Division of the Computer and Software of the Federation of Egypt Chambers of Commerce (ITFoCC) with the aim to use new technologies – one of which is Internet of Things (IoT) – to come up with solutions to societal challenges.

Alexandria, Egypt / Sustainable Technology Speaker / Dec. 19 — 21, 2015 (goo.gl/jI2Xck | goo.gl/DZykJr)

Trained 160+ attendee @ Faculty of Commerce / Alexandria. The conference is held under the auspices of President of Alexandria University  and covered the following topics: Google & the Environment, E-Learning, E-Governance, Solutions and Architectures, Economics and ICT, Open Source Software, ICT in Health Sector, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, IoT, Wearables and others.

Giza, Egypt / AngularJS Speaker / Nov. 27, 2015 (goo.gl/Kk3POf)

Trained 250+ attendee @ Nile University / 6th of October City. Lots of sessions and presentations given by members of the local and international developer communities. The topics include: Big Data , mobile, social, cloud & web, and the sessions held in parallel with workshops.

Giza, Egypt / Trainer / Nov. 08, 2015 (goo.gl/RnmVwP)

Trained 60+ students @ 6th of October University / 6th of October City. Expand upon your HTML5 knowledge with HTML5 and CSS3 Advanced for Responsive Web Design training class. This hands-on class allows students to learn the best and latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques and features. Students will also be introduced to JavaScript.

Sometimes we need to get back to our roots, to remind ourselves of a higher purpose, to devote our actions to the human being, to the whole world, to be live example of the famous quote “All for one & one for all”. In this lightning talk I remind myself and fellow global citizens, brothers and sisters, about why “We” should be before “Me”, how to embrace discomfort, and how to change the way things are. United we stand divided we fall. (goo.gl/KZWabk)

Meet your Google Assistant. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own personal Google, always ready to help. This session will go through Google Assistant features, how to use, and how can we develop for it too. We’ll have real demo on some of Google devices that supports Assistant, and will explore both easy and advanced ways to develop real world voice commands and actions for it. (goo.gl/BDvX7s)

Learn the fundamentals of the Google Cloud Platform, how to run containers on it and how to use the platform for data engineering. Attendees get free access to the labs ($70+ value). No need to create a Google Cloud Platform account or register with a credit card. This one in-person session of 3 hours, followed by 2-8 hours of self-study will boost your knowledge & technical skills, plus you will get Google-hosted badges that you can use in your online profile and show to employers. (goo.gl/aC75ck)

Introduction to Progressive Web Apps, why is it important, and how to get started. A step by step guidance towards a better user experience. (goo.gl/P604rU)

Getting started with machine learning using cloud computing isn’t as hard as you may have thought. With Google Cloud Platform you’ve ready to use, state of art APIs full of intelligence such as cloud vision for image processing, cloud speech for sound recognition / transcription, natural language for text analysis, and of course cloud translate for language detection and translation. (goo.gl/uvlc8H)

My presentation about running Laravel -the popular PHP framework- on Google App Engine. Session delivered at GDG Cairo through the GCP Next Extended season, on May 7th 2016. (goo.gl/RLYLhQ)

Google Workspace Security is the third course in the Google Workspace Administration series.

This course is focused on the various aspects of Google Workspace Security including user password policies and how to enable and enforce two step verification (2SV) for our users. We learned about application security and understood how to whitelist and block API access to our account. We’ve seen how Google Workspace can easily be integrated with a number of predefined 3rd party applications. We also became familiar with the SSO options in Google Workspace. Finally we understood how to spot potential security risks within your organization and learned how to address them using the tools available in the admin console.

Learnings:

• Configure Google’s default user protection settings such as password policies and recovery options.
• Restrict access to a Google service to trusted applications only to prevent malicious attacks on that service.
• Manage the Google Workspace Marketplace for your organization to ensure only trusted applications can be installed on our devices.
• Understand the SSO options available and be able to identify the differences between using Google as an Identity Provider versus a 3rd party provider.
• Be able to integrate cloud based enterprise SAML applications into our Google Workspace account using Google as the Identity Provider.
• Understand how to integrate our own LDAP compliant applications into Google Workspace using the Secure LDAP service.
• Use the security and alert centers to identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues in the organization.
• Understand best practices for implementing and enforcing 2-step verification in the organization.

Managing Google Workspace is the second course in the Google Workspace Administration series.

This course focuses on the Google Workspace core services such as Gmail, Calendar, and Drive & Docs. We became familiar with the various service settings, and learned how to enable them for all or just a subset of the users. We gained an understanding of Google Vault, Google’s ediscovery service. We understood the various admin console reports that are available and the ability to search and filter the information in these reports. Finally we’ve seen how multiple domains can be used with Google Workspace and learned how to add a new domain to the account.

Learnings:

• Enable and disable Google Workspace services for different parts of the organization.
• Configure common settings for Google Workspace core services such as Gmail, Calendar, and Drive and Docs.
• Describe Google Vault and learn how to use it to retain, search and export your organization’s data.
• Navigate and interpret Google Workspace admin reports and setup administrator alerts.
• Understand the mobile device management options available in Google Workspace.
• Explain the basics of multi domain management within Google Workspace.

This program provides the skills we need to advance your career in cloud architecture and provides a pathway to earn the industry-recognized Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and labs, we explored and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services; and we gained real world experience through a number of hands-on Qwiklabs projects.

We also had the opportunity to practice key job skills, such as setting up a cloud environment and configuring and deploying a solution in the cloud. This program also provided sample questions similar to those on the exam, including solutions and practice exam quizzes that simulates the exam-taking experience.

Learnings:

• Prepared for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification.
• Skills needed to be successful in a cloud engineering role.
• The infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud Platform.
• The purpose and intent of the Associate Cloud Engineer certification and its relationship to other Google Cloud certifications.

Course Certificates Completed:

• Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
• Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services
• Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
• Preparing for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Exam
• Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

Skills: Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing, Virtual Machine, Network Architecture, Debugging, Cloud Storage, Data Store, Load Balancing, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Autoscaling

This on-demand course helped us structure the preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. The sessions covered the structure and format of the examination, as well as its relationship to other Google Cloud certifications. Through lectures, demos and hands-on labs, we familiarized ourselves with the domains covered by the examination.

This course helped us better understand the areas covered by the exam and navigate the recommended resources provided by Google and Qwiklabs for preparing to take the exam, so we can formulate our own personal study plans.

Skills: Google Cloud, Cloud Computing, GCP Infrastructure, GCP ACE Certification

This accelerated on-demand course introduced the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, we explored and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

Learnings:

• Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure.
• Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation.
• Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services.
• Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.
• Systems Operations including deploying and managing applications, both on-premises and in a public cloud environment.

Skills: Load Balancing, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Google Cloud Platform, Autoscaling

In this course, we explored services provided to applications built on GCP that enhance the scalability and maintainability. We worked with services like Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Functions to make applications more efficient. We explored the use of containers on GCP.

Learnings:

• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals.
• Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation.
• Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
• Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation.
• Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.
• Systems Operations experience including deploying and managing applications, both on-premises and in a public cloud environment.

Skills: Google Container Engine, Google App Engine (GAE), Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform

This program includes over 100 hours of instruction and hundreds of practice-based assessments, which helps simulate real-world IT support scenarios that are critical for success in the workplace.

Through a mix of videos, assessments, and hands-on labs, we’re introduced to troubleshooting, customer service, networking, operating systems, and security — foundational IT skills.

Skills include: Network protocols, cloud computing, Windows operating system, Linux command line, systems administration, encryption algorithms and techniques, and more.

Learnings:

This course transition IT specialists from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computers systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, we learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We deep dive on cloud so that we understand everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. We also learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, we learn how to recover the organization’s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

Learnings:

• Choose and manage the tools that the organization will use.
• Understand how to make the most of the cloud for the organization.
• Utilize best practices for choosing hardware, vendors, and services for the organization.
• Understand how the most common infrastructure services that keep an organization running work, and how to manage infrastructure servers.
• Manage an organization’s computers and users using the directory services, Active Directory, and OpenLDAP.
• Backup the organization’s data and know how to recover the IT infrastructure in the case of a disaster.
• Utilize systems administration knowledge to plan and improve processes for IT environments.

Skills: Directory Service, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Backup

What is machine learning, and what kinds of problems can it solve?

Google thinks about machine learning slightly differently — of being about logic, rather than just data. We talk about why such a framing is useful for data scientists when thinking about building a pipeline of machine learning models.

Then, we discuss the five phases of converting a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning, and consider why it is important the phases not be skipped. We end with a recognition of the biases that machine learning can amplify and how to recognize this.

Learnings:

• Frame a business use case as a machine learning problem.
• Gain a broad perspective of machine learning and where it can be used.
• Convert a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning.

Skills: Application Programming Interfaces (API), Inclusive ML, Machine Learning, Google Cloud Platform, Bigquery

We got introduced you to important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We learned about, and compared, many of the computing and storage services available in Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. We learned about important resource and policy management tools, such as the Google Cloud Resource Manager hierarchy and Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Hands-on labs gave us foundational skills for working with GCP.

Skills: Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing

With dozen community activities, zillion lines of open source code, and successfully passing Google’s GDE interviews, I’ve been certified by Google as an expert in Google Assistant. [Official Reference]

In June 2016, I got the happy news that I’ve passed all interviews and became certified by Google as an expert in Web Technologies.

Google Developers Experts (GDEs) are a global network of experienced product strategists, designers, developers and marketing professionals actively supporting developers, startups and companies changing the world through web and mobile applications.

GDEs are experienced, recognized developers of Google technologies as well as outstanding professionals in product strategy, UX/UI, marketing, growth hacking and monetization. They distinguish themselves through frequently speaking at conferences, share their passion and experience by publishing videos and tutorials, writing code samples, mentoring developers and startups and much more. Thanks to their support, developers, high-potential startups and technical communities around the world build and launch highly innovative apps.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to create a fully functional Web application by using ASP.NET 3.5.

This course provides the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2005 product features and tools related to maintaining a database.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to add security features to applets and applications so that unwanted access can be prevented and valuable assets can be protected.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design databases for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 using business requirements to guide their decisions (beyond structured third normal form [3NF] modeling techniques). The course introduces incorporating security requirements throughout their design.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to establish connectivity in an enterprise using Java EE in order to create unlimited opportunities for the growth of the enterprise.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to develop web components in an enterprise environment. The course offers a job-related approach to the web application development process and provides the basic expertise required to develop efficient Java Enterprise Edition 5 (JEE 5) web components.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to pictorially represent the software design and business processes, to deliver higher quality systems to the customers and end users. The course introduces the basic concepts of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Model Driven Architecture (MDA), and the Unified Software Development Process.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to create simplesoftware applications using Java 1.2 extensive advanced features.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to the fundamentals of the Java Programming Language and provides an excellent choice for beginning to learn programming using the Java programming language. The course teaches the significance of object-oriented programming, the keywords and constructs of the Java programming language, and the steps required to create simple Java technology programs using Java Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK).

This workshop provides the knowledge and skills to develop Microsoft Windows Forms applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The workshop focuses on user interfaces, program structure, and implementation details.

This workshop provides the knowledge and skills to develop Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The workshop focuses on advanced user interfaces, Web site functionality, and implementation details using the advanced features of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.

This course provides the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

This course enables introductory-level developers who are not familiar with the Microsoft .NET Framework or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to gain familiarity with the Visual Studio 2005 development environment. The course introduces the basic skills using Microsoft Visual C# as a programming language.

NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is the art and science of excellence, derived from studying how top people in different fields obtain their outstanding results. These communication skills can be learned by anyone to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally. It is directly applicable to a diverse spectrum of fields such as communications, business, sales, education and therapy.