1 Hour Quest (Coming 2026)
An upcoming video series examining Monte Cook Games titles, produced as part of the Cypher Stream Creator Fund.
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Crafting apps and worlds.
Professional enthusiast, technology evangelist, cloud architect, AI engineer, and storyteller.
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I specialize in Generative AI, RAG architectures, Multi-Agent Systems, and Application Modernization. I'm a Software Architect helping startups scale at Google Cloud.
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I use stories to craft technical messaging, articulate business value, and create worlds for tabletop roleplaying games.
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Producer and consultant for this actual play series using the Cypher System, game mastered by Kat The Dungeon Mom.
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Gemini Service Account Example
GCP project setup for accessing Gemini via Vertex AI with proper service account configuration, authentication, and security best practices.
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Google GenAI Notebooks
Sample Colab notebooks for using Google Gemini with practical examples and code snippets for getting started with generative AI.
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GCP Terraform Helpers
Terraform utilities to simplify infrastructure provisioning on Google Cloud Platform with reusable modules and best practices.
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Why I Love Stealing Stories for the Devil
A love letter to Monte Cook Games' Stealing Stories for the Devil and why it's become my go-to for zero-prep sci-fi heists.
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Beyond Chatbots: Building a Real-Time Financial Avatar with Google ADK
How we engineered a low-latency, multimodal AI agent that manages finances through live voice and video streaming.
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Building a Fashion AI Agent in 3 Hours
Behind the scenes of the AI Agent Bake-Off, where we built a closet management and virtual try-on AI agent under extreme time pressure—and learned what multi-agent orchestration really looks like in practice.
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Getting Started with Google's Agent Development Kit
A practical introduction to building AI agents with Google Cloud's ADK - from basic concepts to orchestration patterns.
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From Zero to Gen AI Hero with Gemini
A practical introduction to Generative AI on Google Cloud. Learn how to set up Vertex AI, invoke Gemini 1.5, and ship your first prototype in under an hour.
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Media Appearances
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AI Agent Bake-Off Episode 2: FinTech AI Agent
Building a personal finance AI agent with income/expense tracking, net worth visualization, spending graphs, insights, and stock queries. Features sequential and parallel agent patterns with Google search integration.
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AI Agent Bake-Off Episode 1: Fashion AI Agent
A high-pressure 3-hour hackathon building a fashion AI agent for closet recording and virtual try-ons using Google Cloud's Agent Development Kit, Gemini, Imagen, and Veo.
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AWS Summit San Francisco (2014)
Live interview on theCUBE discussing cloud adoption, AWS integration, and data protection strategies for enterprise content management.
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HTML5 for Multi-Device, Content-Rich Apps
Presenting CoPresent, an HTML5 app for real-time document sharing across tablets and desktops. Demonstrates rapid prototyping with Alfresco Cloud as the backend.
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