I’m a Bay Area technical communicator focused on AI systems, developer tooling, APIs, and complex technical infrastructure.

For more than a decade at Google, I’ve worked with engineering, product, security, and research-adjacent teams to translate sophisticated systems into documentation, launch narratives, operational communications, and developer experiences that scale.

My recent work has centered on frontier AI workflows, agentic systems, developer platforms, and the emerging infrastructure around autonomous AI agents, trust, and interoperability.

I’m particularly interested in the intersection of:

• 🧠 LLMs and agentic systems
• 🤖 AI developer platforms and APIs
• ⚙️ Human/AI collaboration workflows
• 🔐 AI safety, reliability, and trust infrastructure
• 🧑‍💻 Developer experience and technical communication at scale

I wrote the launch narrative, developer-facing materials, and public documentation for Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol designed to enable secure, interoperable payments initiated by autonomous AI agents.

AP2 explores foundational infrastructure for trusted agent-to-merchant transactions and the emerging agent economy, including identity, trust, interoperability, and payment orchestration between AI systems and commercial services.

Published September 16, 2025.

• Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol
  https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol

• Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
  https://ap2-protocol.org/

• google-agentic-commerce/AP2
  https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2

My background includes technical documentation, developer platforms, operational communications, and security-related systems across Google Cloud and Google Ads products, including:

• 🛡 Security & Privacy standards and notifications
  https://safety.google/security-privacy/

• 🪪 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  https://cloud.google.com/iam

• 📊 Google Analytics Developer Platform
  https://developers.google.com/analytics

• ✨ Google Optimize Developer Platform
  https://developers.google.com/optimize

Previously, I worked on high-severity security and incident communications at Google Cloud, coordinating urgent customer-facing communications during complex technical and security events.

I’m most effective in highly cross-functional environments where engineering, research, product, policy, security, and developer experience intersect.

My approach combines:

• Systems-level thinking
• Deep technical curiosity
• Clear developer communication
• Operational rigor under ambiguity
• Rapid iteration with AI-native tooling

I regularly work with AI-assisted workflows for research, coding, structured authoring, analysis, prototyping, and content generation, and I’m particularly interested in how human/AI collaboration is reshaping software development and technical communication.

I’m actively expanding my work into:

• 🧠 Large Language Models (LLMs)
• 🤖 AI agents and autonomous workflows
• 🧮 Data science and ML pipelines
• 🔐 Security, cryptography, and trust systems
• ⚡ AI-native developer tooling
• 🧑‍💻 APIs, SDKs, and developer ecosystems

Outside of work I build small automation tools, AI workflows, homelab systems, and publishing infrastructure, and remain deeply interested in the evolution of developer tooling and AI-assisted software creation.

• 🖼 Website
  https://ogrady.ai/

• 💼 Portfolio
  https://ogrady.ai/portfolio/

• 💼 LinkedIn
  https://linkedin.com/in/ogrady

• 📰 Technology journalism
  https://zdnet.com/blog/apple

• ⚡ Founder, PowerPage (est. 1995)
  https://powerpage.org/

• ✏️ Publications / Research
  https://link.ogrady.ai/google-scholar

• 📫 Contact
  https://ogrady.ai/contact.html

• 🦋 Bluesky
  https://bsky.app/profile/ogrady.ai

Publishing online continuously since 1995.

Updated: 2026-05-24