Platform Architect — AI and Cloud, Google
Vikas Mishra
Platform Architect at Google. I design the cloud and AI platforms that run at production scale, and write about the engineering behind systems built to endure.
Areas of Expertise
AI/ML Architecture
LLM pipelines, model serving, MLOps, TPU/GPU optimization for enterprise AI systems
Cloud Solutions
Google Cloud Platform, multi-cloud architecture, cloud migration, and infrastructure optimization
Distributed Systems
Microservices, Kubernetes, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures
Engineering Leadership
Team building, technical mentoring, and engineering strategy for AI/ML teams
16+
Years of Experience
5x
GCP Professional Certified
30+
Conference Talks
60+
Engineers Mentored
Recent Writing
Google's ADK Is a Runtime, Not a Graph: Notes From Eleven Agents
Eleven agents in, the framework choice that mattered wasn't ergonomics or graph syntax. It was whether the runtime had opinions about events, state, and transport. ADK does. Here is what that buys you in production.
Built to Be Cited: An Engineer's Guide to AEO and GEO in 2026
An implementation-grade walkthrough of AI-search optimization in 2026, centered on Google AI Mode and Gemini, with the schema graph, llms.txt work, IndexNow wiring, and the debugging sessions that shipped the result — drawn from rebuilding my own site.
Agentic Coding Is a Different Skill
The executive summary of a free, open-source playbook for Claude Code and Gemini CLI: the handful of ideas that earned their place after months of trial and error.
Agentic Mesh, or Just Another Mesh? Auditing the Lineage Argument
The mesh metaphor for agent systems inherits a lineage that's rewriting itself. A careful audit of where the load-bearing work actually is.
Inference's Techniques Age in Years. Its Economics Age in Weeks.
What survives and what inverts in modern inference engineering: the physics holds, but the build-vs-buy math shifts every quarter.
Google Cloud Certified
Blockchain-Based Verification for Fair Play in Fantasy Sports Using Merkle Trees
The AI Valley Podcast
Conversations on AI, cloud architecture, and the future of technology.
Projects
AI Coding Playbook
An open-source, MIT-licensed book and reference kit for agentic coding with Claude Code and Gemini CLI — 21 chapters, runnable slash commands, skills, hook scripts, and end-to-end workflows.
EPUB2PDF Print Perfect
A Python tool that converts EPUB eBooks into beautiful, print-ready PDFs with preserved typography, embedded images, auto-generated tables of contents, and clean chapter breaks.
Explain Error
A CLI tool that transforms cryptic error messages and stack traces into clear, actionable explanations using AI-powered analysis.
Repo Inspector
A CLI tool that uses AI to analyze codebases and explain what they do, how they're structured, and how data flows through them.