Daiki Watanabe

Daiki Watanabe

🟠 API Architect

API Monitoring & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Sapporo, Japan 5+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire
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Certificates
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Projects
40
Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 5 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Japan and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 4
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 22
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 20
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 11
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced
👍 9
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 21
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
gRPC Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
API Product Strategy
Advanced
👍 11
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert
👍 2
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
SAML
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
Threat Protection Policies
Intermediate
👍 7
mTLS Configuration
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 22
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Intermediate
👍 15
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 10
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 1
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 7
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced
👍 19
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
👍 11
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced
👍 23
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
👍 24
API Metrics & KPI Design
Intermediate
👍 23
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 4
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 2
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert Exam Validated
👍 24
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 16
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced
👍 11
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Advanced
👍 9
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 20
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 15
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Intermediate
👍 2
API Security Architecture
Expert Exam Validated
👍 17
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Monitoring & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) · Retail & E-Commerce · Japan
Dec 2024 – Aug 2026

Architected and delivered mission-critical proxy suites with automated OAuth2 token lifecycle management, Spike Arrest policies, distributed caching, and zero-downtime CI/CD automation.

Scale: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
API Monitoring & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) · Telecommunications · Japan
Jun 2022 – Oct 2026

Architected and delivered mission-critical proxy suites with automated OAuth2 token lifecycle management, Spike Arrest policies, distributed caching, and zero-downtime CI/CD automation.

Scale: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Monitoring & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) · Financial Services / Banking · Japan
Mar 2022 – Present

Architected and delivered mission-critical proxy suites with automated OAuth2 token lifecycle management, Spike Arrest policies, distributed caching, and zero-downtime CI/CD automation.

Scale: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE X
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Oct 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Dec 2023
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Jan 2022
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Apr 2022
Verified