Alan Blount

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Bio

Alan Blount (he/him) is a Sr Product Manager at Google Cloud Vertex AI. We help devs build trusted and collaborative Gen AI agents. My buzzwords are A2A, ADK, Agent Engine, MCP, Grounding/RAG, NL2SQL and Agent Ops. Previously worked on Payments Smart Router (ML multi-arm-bandit) optimization & analytics.

Before Google, Alan was a Tech Lead / Full Stack Developer helping build startups into successful small companies, since ~2001. Alan also mentored at free coding bootcamps, universities, and has spoken at conferences and meetups.

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The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol, an open standard originally developed by Google and now donated to the Linux Foundation that provides the definitive common language for seamless communication and interoperability between AI agents across diverse frameworks and vendors.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanblount/

Organization

Google

Protocol / Standard

A2A

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Linux Foundation

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