Alan Blount

Alan Blount (he/him) is a Sr. Product Manager for the Agent Platform at Google Cloud Vertex AI. A software engineer for 20 years turned PM, he empowers developers to build trustworthy, state-of-the-art Gen AI agents. His focus spans the alphabet soup of agentic tech: ADK, A2A, MCP, A2UI, and UCP. Previously in Payments, Alan leveraged ML for Smart Router to optimize auth rates and dispute mitigation. He is dedicated to moving beyond buzzwords to ship capable, production-grade agent systems. 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.