David Shrader

AI GTM Tech Lead @ Google | vLLM Semantic Router Committer | I bring AI where the internet isn’t | k8s OG

Googleex-FCN ITex-United States Air Force

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I build overnight prototypes that become production systems, then enable entire organizations to do the Right now I'm the GTM Tech Lead for Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud, Google's on-prem AI platform for enterprises that can't send data to the cloud.

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I architect deployments for Fortune 100s with data sovereignty and air-gap requirements, all asking the same question:"How do we run AI on-prem without giving up "In my spare time, I built a reference architecture for secure agentic AI The Privacy Router asks "is the data allowed to leave?" before "is the task ", with jailbreak detection and PII scrubs. Healthcare, legal, and Power & Energy demos on one chassis prove the pattern As a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, I turned a real customer problem into my GenAI bootcamp capstone, adapting an unproven internal framework overnight to secure a Fortune 500 manufacturing deal Sundar Pichai announced on stage at Cloud Next 2023. I hit 500%+ of quota that Before Google: Field Engineer of the Year at Rancher The basement homelab that closed C-level deals was an 11-minute automated Kubernetes deployment from empty infrastructure to running, fully-secured apps. My smallest edge demo used Raspberry Pi nodes with physical LEDs visualizing pod self-healing, self-healing camera feeds, and real-time flight monitoring via ADS-B antennas. Won bake-offs against Red Hat and VMware (worked at At VMware (via Heptio), promoted to Staff in my first year, founding member of the Tanzu product team. At Red Hat, I deployed the first Kubernetes cluster cleared at IL6, earned Red Hat Certified Architect (6 certs in 5 months), and hit 135% of a multi-million dollar quota in my first Before tech: Cryptologic Linguist (Korean) in the Air Force (surprisingly useful in Gen AI), then 7 years in the Intelligence Community at DIA, JIEDDO, and the FBI, where I led early virtualization infrastructure initiatives. Inactive TS/SCI with CI No CS degree. High school diploma. Everything I know, I built by doing it in production, in classified environments, in customer datacenters, but always first in my basement at 2 AM (famous for never burning down a customer environment, but destroying multiple entire homelabs, knock on The thread: show up, build the thing before anyone asks, demo it to the people who matter, then teach everyone else how to do it too.