Kwesi Mensah

Kwesi Mensah

🔴 Apigee Expert Verified Specialist

Mobile Money & Cross-Border Remittance API Architect

Accra, Ghana 7+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 7 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Ghana and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 2
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 20
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
API Hub
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Intermediate
👍 1
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 18
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 20
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 23
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced
👍 21
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
API Key Management
Advanced
👍 5
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
SAML
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 22
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 15
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 3
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 4
Spike Arrest
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Expert
👍 6
Response Caching
Expert
👍 10
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Intermediate
👍 12
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 24
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 23
Apigee Monetization
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 15
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 22
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 24
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 7
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 7
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 9
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Mobile Money & Cross-Border Remittance API Architect · Telecommunications · Ghana
Dec 2024 – 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)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Mobile Money & Cross-Border Remittance API Architect · Logistics & Supply Chain · Ghana
Feb 2024 – 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 APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Mobile Money & Cross-Border Remittance API Architect · Telecommunications · Ghana
Oct 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 EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Apr 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Aug 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Feb 2023
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Aug 2023
Verified