Starting your career in the Cloud - Sunnyvale DSC Summit ‘19

Key Takeaways

have the slides up all right great hi I'm Sammy a cannon I am the global lead for Google cloud learning in higher ed very very happy to be here I love my topic today is kick starting your career in Google cloud a lot of you are here to build impact and to propel your own communities and get them ready for whatever comes next in the technology space so let's get started so what I'm going to talk about our why businesses are moving to Google cloud cloud careers for digital transformation and propelling your community into a cloud first world so that's a mouthful and we'll cover some of that in the next 30 minutes or so a little bit about myself I started off as a non-stem non CS major so a stem major but a non CS major and all of my computer science training was extracurricular and my first few years were in professional services consulting so I worked for a number of companies including sapient which is now called publicist sapient I moved into product engineering with Vittorio technology they were in fact the founders of Vittorio technology were the inventors of the publish/subscribe mechanism which you might all be familiar with after that I took a break for about four years I think for personal reasons and I was you know at that point trying to see what I should be doing next you know whether I wanted to go back to engineering or do something different and I want to quote Sheryl Sandberg here and her book lean in' right and she says don't think of your career as a ladder think of it as a jungle gym right there are many paths to you know make progress in your career and a jungle-gym approach gives you more flexibility more freedom to explore different things rather than sticking to one thing that you've tried tested or good at and then there's no learning happening beyond that so at that point I took stock of what I was passionate about I love technology Java was like my favorite programming language back then I was also I had pretty good skills in writing speaking and so on so I was thrilled when I got an offer from Sun Microsystems then as a technical writer in the Java SE group it was like finding the Holy Grail right so during my time at Sun which later got acquired by Oracle I co-authored the Java tutorials book which was at that time you know also used as a textbook in colleges and so on from there I you know small detour related career at with technical curriculum development at Amazon Web Services came to Google Cloud in the same role and then from there it was like okay what next right side spent a few years with engineering pivoted to writing curriculum development so still very much on the bleeding edge of technology but not engineering there's many many career paths even with maintaining that core love of technology and then I looked around the student space the higher ed learning space really excited me and that's how I came into this role with related to Google cloud learning in higher ed so a very you know zigzag path to where I am today and I've enjoyed every minute of it no regrets at all alright so going on to our first big topic so why are businesses moving to Google cloud why why does Google cloud matter I'll start off with the official textbook definition of Google cloud here Google cloud platform lets you build and host applications and website store data analyze data on google scalable and reliable infrastructure at scale the last words are important all of you are probably building web sites running tensorflow all of that on your laptops where Google cloud comes in or any cloud technology comes in is doing it at scale right and as komal was mentioning when you're talking about solutions that you're building for your customers or your local community problems those are going to need scale right so that's where Google cloud comes in Google's Network carries almost 40% of the world's Internet traffic every day Google photos runs on the same cloud infrastructure 1.2 billion photos and videos are uploaded to Google photos every day about 13 petabytes of for the data that's petabytes YouTube's one petabyte or four hundred hours of video uploaded every minute and I included a link there I can't pull it up here right now but check that out internet life starts com and if you scroll down to the YouTube section there you'll see the number as I'm talking here you'll see hundreds and hundreds of video watches happening in every every second that I'm here up here right so that's the kind of scale that we're talking about with cloud our customers enterprises using cloud to enable their digital transformations Keller Williams now the Keller Williams this is this is an example of an old-style brick-and-mortar real estate type company how are they using cloud they're using auto ml vision to recognize common elements of home furnishings and architecture and so on so for example in this picture it says chooses order ml vision to say this is a modern style there are granite countertops in this picture and so on okada uses natural language processing to route emails for cloud to suburb for customer service escalations and claims Cuba uses machine learning to sort out bad potatoes in baby food so imagine if people had to visually inspect each potato and throw a toss out the bad ones so that they don't make it into baby food the amount of grunt work and you know really it's very easy to get lost in the weeds and lose sight of what the end goal is right so those kinds of repetitive tasks can be handled with technology such as machine learning how many of you have played Pokemon go or knew somebody who was a huge fan so Pokemon go was very developed on Google cloud and the engineering team that built Pokemon go estimated some X amount of traffic would hit the game and they planned for a worst-case scenario of 5x that traffic right so they were able to get plan for that much capacity the game became so popular that they got 50x the traffic that they planned right and they were able to scale seamlessly because they were using Google cloud technologies such as Google kubernetes engine cloud datastore and so on right so again stink scale all right so obviously you can see that I'm getting very excited about the technology here and I have a bias right so I am from the Google cloud team what our industry analysts saying about Google cloud and so when I say Industry Analysts these are analysts who evaluate various technologies from various companies and they have a sort of unbiased view on things so Gartner which is a leading industry analyst has placed Google cloud as a leader or in the leaders quadrant in cloud infrastructure as a service they and data management solutions for analytics Forrester also recognizes Google cloud as a leader Forrester is another industry analyst now they've recognized Google cloud as a leader in cloud cloud platform native security full-stack application development and database as a service in fact I think just earlier this week Google cloud was named as a leader in streaming analytics as well by Forrester all right so we saw how why Google cloud matters right so we're talking about scale again going back to the impact theme right so it's not about just a small number we're talking about impact at a very large scale globally we talked about how few different use cases where customers are using technology in radical ways to simplify their operations now how does this translate to careers right for for you in cloud or in in the technology space or framed another way what kind of talent are employers looking for right as they embark on their journeys for the digital transformation now this is probably my most favorite slide here that cloud isn't just for software engineers right so whether if you're a computer science major great right you can get into any number of like infrastructure or cloud native app development and so on however there are roles and career paths and problem challenges that need skills that stem majors have MBAs marketing so MSP is writes a master's in business analytics customers organizations are trying to derive insights from their data they have these dispara bytes of data we saw that they're generating petabytes of data they're looking to derive insights from that data right and that's where MBAs MSB is marketing statistics majors math majors all of them have a significant role to play in solving the business needs that organizations have so there are several role based training paths right so we have training for various roles so for example if you're a business decision maker or if you're interested in cloud infrastructure roles such as you want to be you're into networking or cyber security or you want to be a cloud native app developer maybe you want to solve data problems right so you love crunching numbers you're deriving insights from data so there are roles and data analytics data engineering data science and so on right so training and certification how does it matter right so I could I could be a self-taught developer which is absolutely great right we're training and certification differentiate you from the rest of the candidate pool when you're applying is you get there are programs for example with Coursera when you take training courses on Coursera we have a program where we've you you will be presented with the opportunity to share your resume with employers directly through that platform so your your resume gets higher visibility with those employers in an independent study of users who are Google certified 80% of them those who's got certified and applied for a new job received at least one job offer one in three certified users received a raise or acquired a job for higher pay by its so training and certification differentiate you from the rest of the candidate pool now where this differ differs from like something like a solutions challenge etc is there is no there is no need not everybody can shine as a winner right there are tons of students who don't necessarily who are equally smart accomplished talented but may not win a particular competition right that is where training and certification give you the advantage of presenting your resume in a different light than the other candidates the solutions challenge is important in that it gives you the practical experience it gets you to practice with real live use cases create impact in your communities but do that not necessarily for the just joy of learning as well right and creating that impact so how can you propel your own communities into a cloud first world we have a number of options here so cloud study jams Kevin mentioned cloud study jams this morning I was thrilled to hear that so cloud study jams are essentially for our workshops with in an environment called quick labs where you get you know practice you get hands-on experience with Google cloud platform cloud hero which my colleague Leslie will talk about after this particular talk these are both learning environments right now which you can basically call your community in for one or more workshops run them and students I'll talk about the details in in the next slide the next step once you've built awareness is the career readiness program which is more in depth training and certification benefits and all of this really sets you up to and your community up to participate in hackathons land your first internship get hired or launch your startup and you as DLC leads you're in that position to drive learning within your communities and help them prepare for that solution challenges like Komal said you have your solution challenge coming up in February or March how do you plan your workshops now to get your community ready technically ready to be able to solve those challenges so what is the goal of cloud study jams claw the goal of cloud study jams is to create aha moments right you're not necessarily trying to teach them the nitty gritty of a command or how to get to like a particulars to do a particular operation in the Google Cloud console or anything like that you want the light bulb to go on that is the goal of a cloud study job and what do I mean by an aha moment right let me give you an example let's say you have to solve a problem you have to write an application which distinguished pictures of puppies and muffins how would you write this application you could say I'll write an application with a bunch of rules if a picture has years has you know eyes it's a puppy if a picture has a wrapper of some kind it's a muffin yeah everybody with me so far imagine what the code for that application would look like right I personally I mean I'm sure this is a very bright crowd but I wouldn't know where to start now look at this picture how would you write code to distinguish between a muffin and a puppy here how many people are had an aha moment right now just one this is where machine learning auto ml vision the vision API shines with just a few lines of code all of the detection of whether something is a muffin or a puppy is done for you you are not writing any code there are machine learning models that have been trained with thousands of pictures of puppies and thousands of pictures of muffins and all I need to do is write three lines of code to make a call to that vision API get back the JSON object look at the attributes in the JSON object and take it from there aha moment anybody all right so that's kind of the spark that you're trying to drive in cloud study champs right and the labs that are in you know that we've lined up in the clouds jams will then take you once you have that aha moment okay now let me try actually doing it with code and code API calls how do I solve the problem so we have cloud storage app packages ready to go so there's a whole system you just basically you know submit form your request quick lapse credits and so on you have slides and quick labs ready to go for various study job work shops today we have GCP essentials which I believe Kevin has run them some of you are the others might have run that as well will soon have cloud for application developers which will cover the area such as Google assistant actions on Google and you know some of the data analytics topics and so on and we also have you know a lot lined up in terms of data and machine learning which will come out fairly soon so you'll have a menu of workshops to choose from and you can kind of depending on the interests of your community depending on the kinds of problems and solutions that you're trying to solve in your local community you can pick from these workshops and really create a wonderful learning experience alright so once you're done with the workshops what next right how do I I and how do my how does my community go to the next level to the next depth of learning there is a program that we've launched called Google cloud career readiness program currently there is one track all the associate cloud engineer track admittedly it's it's a bit infrastructure focus today but it gives you training and certification credits right so you get access to a specializations about 40 hours of coursework on Coursera you get quick labs credits for additional hands-on practice and if you choose to get certified you 50% of the associate cloud engineer certification as well and we have plans to launch a data analytics track as well so and if you want to look at it so we've been we took this program to India earlier this year so if you look up well look us up on Twitter on LinkedIn in the under the hashtag Google cloud ready you'll see some pictures of the events and you know some excitement around the program there as well so for this program you know if you are interested if your community is interested in pursuing more in-depth training and certification or certification I should say please currently the program is you know enabled by faculty so please have your faculty member go to that page and you know apply or you can reach out to Danny or somebody and you know bubble the infrastop to us and we are happy to reach out to faculty as well and bring the program to your institution all right so others you know I'll conclude by saying that technology education is the ladder that you know enables individuals to rise above socio-economic constraints it certainly was for me when I graduated from college and you as DSC leads are uniquely positioned right to have that impact on your communities right no matter what somebody's background whether you know levels of education and so on there is always room for growth with technology education right so that's where you're uniquely positioned so I wish you all the best you know go make waves have impact we are here to support you so as you go through you know run workshops and events on campus please do provide feedback on what else we can do to help you be successful and help your communities be successful thank you and I'm happy to take questions later I'll be outside