Sampath Kumar — AI & Cloud
Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google Cloud. I write long-form guides and cookbooks on AI agents, the Agent Development Kit (ADK), the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, Gemini, and Google Cloud — for agents first, and the humans who build them.
Latest posts
- A2A Joins AAIF · Aug 29, 2026
The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol has officially joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation as a Growth Stage project. - Building an Agentic Sandbox: Provisioning a Google Cloud VM Workstation · Aug 29, 2026
How to configure an isolated Google Compute Engine VM as a personal sandbox and secondary workstation for running Agentic AI harnesses, Gemini, and Vertex AI experiments. - Setting Up GUI & Chrome Remote Desktop on a Google Cloud VM · Aug 20, 2026
How to configure a lightweight XFCE desktop environment and Chrome Remote Desktop on a Google Cloud Compute Engine VM for browser-based remote access.