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Champion Innovators

Champion Innovators are a global network of more than 500 professionals, nominated by Googlers, who are technical experts in Google Cloud products and services. Each Champion specializes in one of nine different technical categories.

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Technical categories

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Benefits

Champions are eligible for a wide collection of benefits from Google Cloud, including:

• All Innovators benefits and complementary Innovators Plus subscription
• Recognition on the Champions Directory and Developer Profile badges sharable on social media and personal websites
• Access to Google Cloud product teams and projects, including early access programs
• Publication of original content on the Google Cloud Blog, YouTube Google Cloud Tech channel, and on the Champions Content Library
• Private Google Group and Discord for announcements, discussion, and collaboration
• Invitations and VIP treatment at Google Cloud events
• Recognized member status on the Stack Overflow Google Cloud Collective
• Special welcome gift

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Eligibility criteria

To be eligible, candidates meet these requirements:

1. Be nominated by a Googler
2. Experience running production workloads on Google Cloud products
3. Have a track record of sharing knowledge and contributing within technical communities and large organizations
4. A deep technical understanding of Google Cloud in one of the following areas:
   • Cloud AI/ML
   • Modern Architecture
   • Data Analytics
   • Security & Networking
   • Databases
   • Serverless App Development
   • Google Workspace
   • Storage
   • Hybrid Multi-Cloud

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Meet featured Champions

Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

Mercedes Rodríguez

Cloud AI/ML

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Melbourne VIC, Australia

Christopher

Hybrid Multi-Cloud

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Brisbane QLD, Australia

Gwenny Warnick

Modern Architecture

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Goiânia, State of Goiás, Brazil

Egio Arruda Junior

Serverless App Development

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Champion-authored content

Learn directly from Champion Innovators how they solve problems, tackle new projects, and work with Google Cloud.

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Blog

April 17, 2024

AI ain't useless. But is it worth it?

Like so many technologies, blockchains are designed to prioritize a few specific characteristics (coordination among parties who don't trust one another, censorship-resistance, etc.) at the expense of many others (speed, cost, etc.). And as they became trendy, people often used them for purposes where their characteristics weren't necessary — or were sometimes even unwanted — and so they got all of the flaws with none of the benefits.

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Podcast

March 27, 2024

Controlling cloud costs: Where to start, and where to go from there

In this episode, Joshua Fox, a senior cloud architect at DoiT, discusses cloud cost optimization. Listen as he explores the importance of controlling and understanding cloud costs, the role of good architecture in cost optimization, and strategies for dealing with surprise costs.

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Blog

Scalable And Secure Microservices Architecture Using Google Cloud

Google Cloud provides a host of services and capability to build scalable and secure web and microservices architecture. Following architecture can be used for deploying web and microservices in production on Google cloud.

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