I teach engineers to build with AI.
I lead technical learning engineering at Google Cloud for Vertex AI, Gemini and MLOps, with programs reaching 1M+ developers across Google Skills, YouTube and Coursera. Three-time Google NEXT speaker. I build my own demos and apps with Claude, and I’d rather teach a room than pitch it.
Google Cloud Next ’23 From the classroom to the command line.
I started as an elementary school teacher, and I’ve never stopped teaching. It’s just that my audiences became platform teams, partner engineers and developers learning to ship with AI.
At AWS I built partner training alongside systems integrators like Cognizant, Accenture, KPMG and Infosys. At Google Cloud I run a large vendor ecosystem that builds and delivers our ML Engineer, Data Analytics and GenAI curriculum, which means most of my impact comes from training the people who train everyone else. Along the way I’ve led teams at Starbucks, Cornerstone, Nordstrom, HP and TomTom.
The through-line: adoption is a learning problem. A rollout succeeds when the engineers in the room leave able to do the thing themselves, so I teach with a terminal open, build the demo the night before, and treat a broken demo as the best teaching moment of the day.
Rapid Learning Development. My framework blends ADDIE, Bloom’s and Kirkpatrick with agile sprints, so a request on Monday becomes a tested workshop by Friday. With AI in the loop, it cut our content build time from 50 hours to 5.
Technical curriculum for a million developers
Hands-on learning paths, labs and video my team designs and ships for Google Cloud, built around real tools like Vertex AI, BigQuery ML and Gemini.
Machine Learning Engineer Learning Path
End-to-end ML on Google Cloud: model design, training, deployment and optimization, with hands-on labs in Vertex AI, BigQuery ML and TensorFlow.
Cloud Data Analytics Certificate
A five-course professional certificate covering BigQuery, Looker, Cloud Storage, Dataproc and generative AI in analytics.
Upskill Your Career with Generative AI
Practical guidance for developers building real generative AI skills on Google Cloud.
Unleash Team Potential: Assess Learning Needs Using GenAI
A GenAI-powered needs assessment that helps leaders find skill gaps and build targeted enablement plans for their teams.
A week teaching AI in Vilnius.
With WAKE International’s Tech2Empower for Ukraine program, I spent a week working alongside Ukrainian women, many of them refugees rebuilding businesses and organizations from scratch. Three formats in one week: a room of 50+, a hands-on build session, and one-on-one strategy.
From Prompt to Process
I designed the session from a pre-survey: participants were past single prompts and asking for “entire work processes.” So we built them, using Gemini and Claude Projects, Skills and agents.
- A six-part workflow brief: role, inputs, steps, rules, output, checkpoint
- Live demo: a bilingual funder report where 20 minutes of writing became 2 minutes of checking
- Swap test: if a teammate can’t run your brief cold, the AI can’t either
- Red-teaming real decisions, plus five guardrails for sensitive data
Leading with Pictures
A women’s leadership session built on visual thinking: using images to surface what people find hard to say, and to align a group fast on where they’re headed.
The method, from CCL →Website & brand makeovers
One-on-one work on websites and branding for participants’ businesses and organizations. With fellow volunteers, we took PURK Kool, a school for newcomers in Estonia, from a legacy site to a new brand, design system, site architecture and automated student intake.
What stayed with me wasn’t any single workshop. It was the conversations in between, and the way these women lifted each other up.
Kelly · on VilniusEvery format, every audience
From a keynote stage to a customer’s own codebase, the goal is the same: engineers leave able to do it themselves.
Big-stage talks & webinars
Keynotes and live sessions for thousands, from Google NEXT to the U.S.-ASEAN Dialogue. Practiced delivery on material that often lands the day before.
- Google NEXT ’23, ’24, ’25
- U.S.-ASEAN Dialogue keynote
- Live demos, not slideware
Hands-on workshops
Multi-day labs and cohorts built around the team’s real stack and real questions, in person or virtual, with office hours to unblock live problems.
- Built on the customer’s codebase
- Labs, cohorts and office hours
- Measured with Kirkpatrick L1–L3
Train-the-trainer
Programs that certify partner and vendor technologists to deliver the material themselves, which is how one team’s knowledge reaches millions.
- Google Cloud vendor ecosystem
- GSI partners at AWS
- Certification & quality bars
I build the things I teach.
Side projects and demos I’ve shipped with Claude as my pair programmer. They’re how I learn new features the week they ship, and where my opinions about agentic coding come from.
Natural Dye Lab
ShippingA lab notebook for natural dye experiments: recipe journal with search and filters, star ratings, and in-browser camera capture for swatches. Moving from local storage to a Supabase backend.
Cedar & Sound Scent Finder
ShippedBuilt for our company, Cedar & Sound: an app that finds favorite scents from around the world, breaks each one into its top, heart and base notes, and turns it into a natural-oil blend we can make, from pillow sprays to diffuser recipes.
MatchPoint
PrototypeA tennis management platform for league players: court finder, coach booking and USTA team tools, prototyped end to end with Claude.
> “Platform team wants agentic coding on their monorepo. Tomorrow.” # 9:30 — learn the codebase with Claude
> map the repo, find three realistic tasks # 11:00 — build the demo repo
> scaffold, break it on purpose, write the fix path # 14:00 — turn it into a lesson
> objectives (Bloom’s) → labs → slides → facilitator notes # 16:00 — dry run
> run every lab clean; script the recovery if a demo breaks ✓ ready to teach — and to hand to the next trainer
Talks & workshops
From keynote stages to panels and community rooms, here are past stages and the topics I’m teaching now. Any of them can be tailored for a technical or executive audience.
Generative AI and the Future of Learning
Google NEXT ’23 ’24 ’25Learning Without Borders: Building Future-Ready Talent through AI
Keynote · U.S.-ASEAN 2025Who Holds the Helm? AI Ethics, Transparency, and the Rules We Need
Panel · WiT Regatta 2026Claude for Good: NGO & Educator Accreditation Program
Talk · ClaudeFrom Pilot to Rollout: Teaching Agentic Coding to Engineering Teams
Workshop · NewFrom Prompt to Process: Turning AI Tasks into Team Workflows
Workshop · Vilnius 2026Train the Trainer: Scaling AI Enablement Through Partners
WorkshopAI Adoption Is a Learning Problem, Not a Tech Problem
KeynoteAI that’s safe and useful, for everyone
Outside my day job I work on how AI reaches the people most often left out of the rollout: kids, educators and NGOs.
Who Holds the Helm? AI ethics, transparency, and the rules we need
A cross-industry panel on who is accountable when AI systems make decisions, what real transparency looks like, and the guardrails organizations need before they deploy.
Youth AI Safety Program
An age-banded curriculum for ages 6–18 spanning nine AI safety domains, grounded in UNESCO and OECD guidance and designed with global equity in mind.
Claude for Good
Hands-on training that helps NGOs and educators put Claude to work responsibly, doing more with small teams and smaller budgets.
WAKE International · Tech2Empower
Board member at WAKE International (2026–2028) and advisor to Tech2Empower, with volunteer work for women’s and girls’ education across 11+ countries, most recently in Vilnius.
A no-jargon show for parents, educators and everyday professionals figuring out AI, co-hosted with my partner and built on change-management principles.
Let’s get engineers building.
Planning a workshop, a rollout or a talk on agentic coding and AI enablement? I’d love to hear about it.