Daniela Mendez

Daniela Mendez

🟠 API Architect

Nearshore Cloud API Solutions Engineer

San Jose, Costa Rica 5+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire
2,500
Reputation XP
0
Certificates
3
Projects
40
Skills Matrix
536
Endorsements
276
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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 Costa Rica and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 7
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
👍 10
API Hub
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 10
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 24
GraphQL Proxies
Intermediate
👍 10
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 4
API Versioning Strategy
Intermediate
👍 10
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 17
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
SAML
Intermediate
👍 14
Threat Protection Policies
Intermediate
👍 22
mTLS Configuration
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 3
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 22
Spike Arrest
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 11
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 5
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Intermediate
👍 22
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Advanced
👍 6
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 17
Apigee Monetization
Expert
👍 18
API Metrics & KPI Design
Intermediate
👍 12
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 15
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 18
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 14
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced
👍 6
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 12
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 11
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert
👍 22
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 22
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert
👍 20
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
API Security Architecture
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Nearshore Cloud API Solutions Engineer · Retail & E-Commerce · Costa Rica
Feb 2024 – Dec 2024

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 EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Nearshore Cloud API Solutions Engineer · Retail & E-Commerce · Costa Rica
Apr 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Nearshore Cloud API Solutions Engineer · Financial Services / Banking · Costa Rica
Sep 2021 – 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 EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Jun 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Aug 2024
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Oct 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Aug 2022
Verified