Gabriel Santos

Gabriel Santos

💎 Apigee Champion Verified Specialist

Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway Lead

São Paulo, Brazil 12+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Brazil 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
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 12
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
API Hub
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 22
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 7
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced
👍 13
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
GraphQL Proxies
Intermediate
👍 16
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 6
API Versioning Strategy
Expert
👍 1
API Product Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 16
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
SAML
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Threat Protection Policies
Intermediate
👍 4
mTLS Configuration
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
Data Masking
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 19
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 2
Response Caching
Advanced
👍 7
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 5
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced
👍 11
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
👍 19
API Metrics & KPI Design
Intermediate
👍 4
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced
👍 15
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 16
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 9
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 10
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert
👍 1
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 13
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert
👍 21
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 9
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 10
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway · Logistics & Supply Chain · Brazil
Aug 2023 – Aug 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 HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway · Logistics & Supply Chain · Brazil
Jun 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway · Financial Services / Banking · Brazil
Mar 2021 – Jun 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
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Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Feb 2024
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Dec 2023
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Jul 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Nov 2022
Verified