Diego Alvarez

Diego Alvarez

πŸ’Ž Apigee Champion Verified Specialist

FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant

Mexico City, Mexico 10+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 10 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Mexico and global enterprises.

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Mentorship Availability

Happy to guide aspiring architects on Apigee X migrations and OAuth 2.0 security patterns.

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Apigee Skill Matrix
πŸ”΅ Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 5
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Advanced
πŸ‘ 12
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 20
API Hub
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 7
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 3
🟒 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced
πŸ‘ 6
REST API Design
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 17
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 12
gRPC Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 18
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 18
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 12
🟑 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 6
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 3
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 10
SAML
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 24
Threat Protection Policies
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 3
mTLS Configuration
Expert
πŸ‘ 15
Data Masking
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 12
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 6
Spike Arrest
Expert
πŸ‘ 5
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 24
Response Caching
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 9
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert
πŸ‘ 20
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 12
πŸ”΄ Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 1
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 15
Apigee Monetization
Expert
πŸ‘ 16
API Metrics & KPI Design
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 10
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 20
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 7
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 14
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 13
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 24
Environment & Organisation Management
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 5
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 10
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 16
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 17
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 6
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 23
API Security Architecture
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 9
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant Β· Telecommunications Β· Mexico
Jun 2024 – Apr 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant Β· Healthcare & Life Sciences Β· Mexico
Jun 2024 – 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee APIGEE X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant Β· Healthcare & Life Sciences Β· Mexico
May 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud Β· Jul 2023
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services Β· Jan 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud Β· Jun 2023
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Β· Sep 2022
Verified