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.

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Latest posts

• Meet A2A CLI: A Hello World & API Key Auth Guide in Python and Go · Nov 10, 2026
  Why we built a2a-cli (curl for A2A agents), plus a hands-on Hello World and Bearer API key verification guide in Python and Go.
• Resilient SSH Config for Google Cloud VMs: Connecting IDE Agents via IAP Tunnel · Oct 22, 2026
  How to replace fragile gcloud compute ssh wrapper scripts with a resilient ~/.ssh/config entry using IAP ProxyCommand that works natively in VS Code, Cursor, and Antigravity—independent of your active gcloud project or ephemeral VM IPs.
• 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.

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