Naledi Sithole

Naledi Sithole

🟡 API Engineer

API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner

Cape Town, South Africa 4+ Years Apigee Experience
1,500
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0
Certificates
3
Projects
39
Skills Matrix
458
Endorsements
750
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 4 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across South Africa and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 10
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Expert
👍 10
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 15
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee Developer Portal
Advanced
👍 21
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced
👍 2
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 5
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 12
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 2
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 3
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 13
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
SAML
Expert
👍 6
Threat Protection Policies
Expert
👍 7
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 11
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 12
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Expert Exam Validated
👍 22
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 1
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 6
Response Caching
Expert
👍 20
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced
👍 18
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Apigee Monetization
Expert
👍 11
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 20
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced
👍 12
Terraform for Apigee
Advanced
👍 11
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 14
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 19
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 23
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert Exam Validated
👍 23
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 5
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 11
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner · Government & Public Sector · South Africa
Feb 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 APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner · Government & Public Sector · South Africa
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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner · Government & Public Sector · South Africa
Jul 2021 – Dec 2026

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 X
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Jul 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Jul 2024
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Jun 2024
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Oct 2023
Verified