Ricardo Ferreira aka Cacá

Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

As a Google Cloud Authorized Trainer, my specialty is empowering teams at Google partner companies. I conduct training focused on how to apply and work with the latest cloud technologies, including Generative AI, Machine learning, Databases, Data Engineering, and Development. My expertise and certifications also cover essential areas such as Architecture, Security, DevOps, Networking, and other fundamental technologies for the Google Cloud ecosystem.

With a career in software development spanning since 1998, I bring a wealth of practical experience to the cloud. My core focus is on designing and implementing bespoke AI solutions and intelligent agents, leveraging a deep, holistic understanding of the cloud platform to solve unique and complex business challenges.

Professional Level Certifications

Professional Data Engineer Badge

Professional Data Engineer

Validates expertise in designing, building, and maintaining data processing systems. This includes collecting, transforming, and visualizing data, with a focus on secure, robust, and scalable data pipelines on Google Cloud.

Professional Machine Learning Engineer Badge

Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Demonstrates the ability to design, build, and productionalize ML models. This covers the entire lifecycle, from data preparation and processing to model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring at scale on Google Cloud.

Professional Cloud Developer Badge

Professional Cloud Developer

Validates proficiency in building, deploying, and managing scalable and highly available applications on Google Cloud. It covers application development, CI/CD, and the use of Google Cloud's core compute, database, and storage services.

Professional Cloud Database Engineer Badge

Professional Cloud Database Engineer

Validates expertise in designing, managing, and migrating database solutions. This includes the ability to choose the right database service, manage instances, and ensure performance, availability, and security.

Generative AI Leader Badge

Generative AI Leader

Validates a foundational understanding of core generative AI concepts, models, and Google Cloud tools. This certification is for individuals in leadership or business roles who need to make strategic decisions about adopting and implementing GenAI.

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Agents & Gen Ai Technical Expert Badges

Customer Engagement Suite Badge

Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI

Deploy conversational agents using playbooks and flows. Enhance their capabilities with webhooks and tools. Analyze and perfect your customer engagements with Conversational Insights. Handoff to your human agents and empower their responses with Agent Assist. And implement conversational agent best practices for managing and improving projects iteratively. Demonstrate your abilities in all of these skills to earn your Customer Engagement Suite Technical Expert Badge.

Build with Vertex AI Badge

Build with Vertex AI

Use Gemini's advanced multimodal and function calling capabilities. Deploy Google and partner models from Model Garden. Use Imagen and Veo to generate rich media from prompts. Showcase your mastery over core components of generative AI apps by building your own RAG application. Measure the quality of generated responses with the generative AI evaluation service.Demonstrate your abilities in all of these skills to earn the Build with Vertex Technical Expert Badge.

Intelligent Search Badge

Intelligent Search

Combine Google's strengths in search and AI to help users find exactly what they're looking for with Vertex AI Search.Utilize AI Applications data stores to ground gen AI applications. Make great recommendations for products or media content. Create search experiences specialized for media and healthcare domains. Accelerate teams’ knowledge discovery with Agentspace and deploy AI assistants. Prove that you can deliver each of these solutions to earn the Intelligent Search Technical Expert Badge.

Individual Skill Badge Details

Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications

Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications

Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications

This badge demonstrates the ability to create and deploy intelligent search and recommendation engines using Google Cloud's AI services.

Configure AI Applications to optimize search results

Configure AI Applications to optimize search results

Configure AI Applications to optimize search results

Earning this badge shows proficiency in fine-tuning and managing AI search applications to enhance performance and relevance.

Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores

Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores

Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores

This badge validates the ability to design, implement, and manage the data backend for AI search applications.

Create Media Search and Media Recommendations Applications with AI Applications

Create Media Search and Media Recommendations Applications

Create Media Search and Media Recommendations Applications

This badge focuses on the specialized skill of building AI applications for media content, like video and image search.

Build basic Conversational Agents with Playbooks and Flows

Build basic Conversational Agents with Playbooks and Flows

Build basic Conversational Agents with Playbooks and Flows

This badge signifies foundational skills in creating chatbots and virtual agents using Google Cloud's Dialogflow.

Improve customer and agent satisfaction with Agent Assist

Improve customer and agent satisfaction with Agent Assist

Improve customer and agent satisfaction with Agent Assist

Earning this badge shows proficiency in using Google Cloud's Agent Assist technology to provide real-time support to human agents.

Analyze patterns in conversational data with Conversational Insights

Analyze Patterns in Conversational Data with Conversational Insights

Analyze Patterns in Conversational Data with Conversational Insights

This badge validates the ability to use Google Cloud's AI tools to analyze conversation logs from chatbots and human agents.

Extend virtual agents with webhooks, tools, and Messenger integration

Extend virtual agents with webhooks, tools, and Messenger integration

Extend virtual agents with webhooks, tools, and Messenger integration

This badge demonstrates advanced skills in enhancing virtual agents by connecting them to external systems and APIs.

Leverage best practices for production-grade Conversational Agents

Leverage best practices for production-grade Conversational Agents

Leverage best practices for production-grade Conversational Agents

This badge indicates a comprehensive understanding of the full lifecycle of a conversational AI project, from design to deployment.

Extend Google Agentspace Assistant Capabilities

Extend Google Agentspace Assistant Capabilities

Extend Google Agentspace Assistant Capabilities

Earning this badge demonstrates the ability to customize and enhance the Agentspace platform with conversational agents and tools.

Deploy an Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Deploy an Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Deploy an Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)

This badge signifies skills in using the ADK to build, test, and deploy generative AI agents on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use

Extend Gemini with Controlled Generation and Tool Use

Extend Gemini with Controlled Generation and Tool Use

This badge demonstrates advanced proficiency in working with Gemini models, including grounding and tool integration.

Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs

Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs

Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs

This badge shows the ability to leverage Vertex AI Model Garden to select, deploy, and customize pre-trained foundation models.

Edit Images with Imagen

Edit Images with Imagen

Edit Images with Imagen

This badge focuses on using Imagen for advanced image manipulation, such as inpainting, outpainting, and generative editing.

Deploy a RAG application with vector search in Firestore

Deploy a RAG application with Vector Search in Firestore

Deploy a RAG application with Vector Search in Firestore

This badge validates the ability to build a RAG application using Firestore as a vector database for information retrieval.

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