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A few months back, Shine's Pablo Caif and Graham Polley were welcomed into the Google Developer Expert (GDE) program as a result of their recent work at Telstra. The projects they are working on consist of building bleeding edge big data solutions using tools like
BigQuery and
Cloud Dataflow on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You can read all about that
here.
GDE acceptance comes with many benefits and privileges, one of which is a yearly trip to a private summit at a different location each year. With Google footing the bill, they bring all the GDEs (around 250 currently) from around the globe for, let's admit it, a complete Google geek-out fest for 2 days!
This year the summit was at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Needless to say, Pablo and Graham were chomping at the bit to go. However, in addition to the summit, Google invited them to fly out prior to actual summit itself. They had lined up a few other things especially for the guys. So this was no ordinary trip. Lucky buggers!
We asked both guys to give their individual feedback on the trip, and here's what they had to say about it. Read on if you want to hear about how the guys spent six days hanging out with Google in America.
07 December, 2015
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