Karim El-Baz

Karim El-Baz

🔴 Apigee Expert Verified Specialist

Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services

Cairo, Egypt 8+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting
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Certificates
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Projects
40
Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 8 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Egypt and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 3
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 10
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 2
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 10
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 15
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert
👍 1
REST API Design
Advanced
👍 15
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced
👍 2
gRPC Proxies
Advanced
👍 14
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced
👍 2
API Product Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Intermediate
👍 4
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 13
JWT / JWS Validation
Intermediate
👍 6
SAML
Intermediate
👍 5
Threat Protection Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
mTLS Configuration
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 7
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
Spike Arrest
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Response Caching
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert
👍 12
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 16
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 8
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 24
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
👍 5
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert
👍 13
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 5
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 4
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
👍 10
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert
👍 6
Environment & Organisation Management
Intermediate
👍 16
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 18
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 12
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 24
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
API Security Architecture
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services · Retail & E-Commerce · Egypt
Apr 2022 – Sep 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services · Financial Services / Banking · Egypt
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 X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services · Telecommunications · Egypt
Apr 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 OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Jun 2025
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Mar 2024
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Apr 2022
Verified