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Cristian Ivan Parra Mesa

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Gold League

40943 points
Optimize Agent Behavior Earned Mar 6, 2026 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started Earned Nov 4, 2025 EST
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned Sep 23, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned Sep 23, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned Sep 23, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned Sep 23, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned Sep 23, 2025 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned Sep 8, 2025 EDT
Working with Notebooks in Vertex AI Earned Sep 8, 2025 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Sep 5, 2025 EDT
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Gemini Enterprise Earned May 15, 2025 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PMLE Earned Apr 2, 2025 EDT
DEPRECATED Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI Earned Sep 1, 2024 EDT
Building Gen AI Apps with Vertex AI: Prompting and Tuning Earned Aug 12, 2024 EDT
Build MLOps Pipelines using Vertex AI Earned Aug 6, 2024 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Jul 5, 2024 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Jul 5, 2024 EDT
Monitor and Manage Data in BigQuery Earned Jul 4, 2024 EDT
Generative AI with Google Cloud databases: Usecases Earned Jul 3, 2024 EDT
Machine Learning in the Enterprise Earned Jul 2, 2024 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Jun 27, 2024 EDT
Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI Earned Jun 25, 2024 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Jun 21, 2024 EDT
Feature Engineering Earned Jun 21, 2024 EDT
Build, Train and Deploy ML Models with Keras on Google Cloud Earned Jun 21, 2024 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned Jun 20, 2024 EDT
Build Custom Processors with Document AI [Deprecated] Earned Jun 19, 2024 EDT
Launching into Machine Learning Earned Jun 19, 2024 EDT
Build Custom Processors with Document AI Earned Jun 18, 2024 EDT
Document AI: Building a Custom Document Extractor Earned Jun 18, 2024 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned Jun 14, 2024 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Jun 14, 2024 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Jun 14, 2024 EDT

You’ve built your first agent—now it’s time to take it further. In this course, you’ll advance your skills by learning how to turn a basic AI agent into a sophisticated, precise assistant—applying advanced instructions, model selection, planning capabilities, and structured output patterns. Join the community forum for questions and discussions

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This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Vertex AI empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine Learning Engineering professionals use tools for continuous improvement and evaluation of deployed models. They work with (or can be) Data Scientists, who develop models, to enable velocity and rigor in deploying the best performing models.

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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools.

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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape s the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.

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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.

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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.

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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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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. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. 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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Unite Google’s expertise in search and AI with Gemini Enterprise, a powerful tool designed to help employees find specific information from document storage, email, chats, ticketing systems, and other data sources, all from a single search bar. The Gemini Enterprise assistant can also help brainstorm, research, outline documents, and take actions like inviting coworkers to a calendar event to accelerate knowledge work and collaboration of all kinds. (Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)

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Learn how to use NotebookLM to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification exam (PMLE). You'll review NotebookLM features, create a notebook, and use the study guide to practice for a certification exam.

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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI skill badge course, where you learn how to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, AutoML, and custom training services to train, evaluate, tune, explain, and deploy machine learning models.

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(This course was previously named Multimodal Prompt Engineering with Gemini and PaLM) This course teaches how to use Vertex AI Studio, a Google Cloud console tool for rapidly prototyping and testing generative AI models. You learn to test sample prompts, design your own prompts, and customize foundation models to handle tasks that meet your application's needs. Whether you are looking for text, chat, code, image or speech generative experiences Vertex AI Studio offers you an interface to work with and APIs to integrate your production application.

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This skill badge aims to evaluate a partner's ability to utilize various methods available to them to automate manual processes involved when deploying machine learning models using Vertex AI. Manual processes are often not scalable which is why advancing an organization's AI/ML adoption requires ML Ops processes to improve the rate of model training, experimentation and deployment.

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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud. 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 applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. 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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This skill badge aims to evaluate a partner's ability to utilize BigQuery's features and capabilities to manage and analyze large datasets. Learners will gain hands-on experience through labs and achieve solid understanding of BigQuery's foundational concepts and features.

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Explore the future of generative AI in Google Cloud databases, how Google Cloud uses Duet AI with databases, and how generative AI can be implemented at the orchestration layer. Discover new capabilities in PostgreSQL with SQL and vector search, AlloyDB innovations for generative AI apps, and Duet AI in CloudSpanner. Follow demonstrations for AlloyDB AI, and Duet AI in Cloud Spanner and Database Migration Service.

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This course takes a real-world approach to the ML Workflow through a case study. An ML team faces several ML business requirements and use cases. The team must understand the tools required for data management and governance and consider the best approach for data preprocessing. The team is presented with three options to build ML models for two use cases. The course explains why they would use AutoML, BigQuery ML, or custom training to achieve their objectives.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI course. In this course, you learn how to extract, process, and capture data using Document AI.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. 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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This course explores the benefits of using Vertex AI Feature Store, how to improve the accuracy of ML models, and how to find which data columns make the most useful features. This course also includes content and labs on feature engineering using BigQuery ML, Keras, and TensorFlow.

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This course covers building ML models with TensorFlow and Keras, improving the accuracy of ML models and writing ML models for scaled use.

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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Custom Processors with Document AI course. You learn how to extract data and classify documents by creating custom ML models specific to your business needs. This course teaches the foundation skills of building your own processors, working with optical character recognition, form parsing, processor creation, and uptraining the DocumentAI model.

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The course begins with a discussion about data: how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis. We describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code. You will understand the benefits of Big Query ML. We then discuss how to optimize a machine learning (ML) model and how generalization and sampling can help assess the quality of ML models for custom training.

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This skill badge course is designed to offer hands-on experience through labs, enabling participants to master Document AI for document processing and extraction tasks. By the end of the course, participants will be proficient in creating and testing Document AI processors, customizing document extraction using Document AI Workbench, and building custom processors to tackle real-world document processing challenges.

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This workload aims to upskill Google Cloud partners to perform specific tasks associated with building a Custom Doc Extractor using the Google Cloud AI solution. The following will be addressed: Service: Document AI Task: Extract fields Processors: Custom Document Extractor and Document Splitter Prediction: Using Endpoint to programmatically extract fields

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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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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. 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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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.

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