Daniel Cooper

Daniel Cooper

🟠 API Architect

API Integration Engineer | SOAP to REST Transformation Policies

Philadelphia, United States 5+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire
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Projects
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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 United States and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 5
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 7
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 4
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 2
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Intermediate
👍 2
REST API Design
Advanced
👍 21
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 7
API Versioning Strategy
Intermediate
👍 15
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 17
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert
👍 11
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 2
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
SAML
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 1
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 14
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 17
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced
👍 7
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 2
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert
👍 14
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced
👍 8
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert
👍 11
Apigee Monetization
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Terraform for Apigee
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 13
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 22
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Advanced
👍 1
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert
👍 20
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 15
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Intermediate
👍 9
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 4
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Integration Engineer | SOAP To REST Transformation Polic · Healthcare & Life Sciences · United States
Aug 2024 – Oct 2025

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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
API Integration Engineer | SOAP To REST Transformation Polic · Retail & E-Commerce · United States
Feb 2023 – 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Integration Engineer | SOAP To REST Transformation Polic · Financial Services / Banking · United States
Apr 2022 – Sep 2025

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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Aug 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Apr 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Jul 2023
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Sep 2022
Verified