Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade

🔴 Apigee Expert

AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying

Auckland, New Zealand 7+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting
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Projects
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Skills Matrix
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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 New Zealand and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 12
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 3
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 9
API Hub
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert
👍 17
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Intermediate
👍 18
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 6
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 3
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 22
API Versioning Strategy
Intermediate
👍 24
API Product Strategy
Expert
👍 20
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert
👍 9
API Key Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced
👍 15
SAML
Intermediate
👍 23
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 2
Data Masking
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Intermediate
👍 1
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 14
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 21
Response Caching
Advanced
👍 11
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 7
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 9
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert
👍 4
Apigee Monetization
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Expert
👍 8
Terraform for Apigee
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Apigee Management API
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 24
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 12
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 21
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 24
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 24
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 22
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Intermediate
👍 23
API Security Architecture
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 12
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying · Telecommunications · New Zealand
Mar 2024 – Jun 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 #1
AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying · Government & Public Sector · New Zealand
Feb 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying · Healthcare & Life Sciences · New Zealand
Feb 2021 – Mar 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Jul 2025
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Apr 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Nov 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Oct 2022
Verified