Amara Okafor

Amara Okafor

🔴 Apigee Expert Verified Specialist

Pan-African FinTech API Platform Engineer | High-Throughput Switching

Lagos, Nigeria 7+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire Open to Mentoring
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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 Nigeria 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)
Intermediate
👍 24
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
Apigee Hybrid
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
API Hub
Expert Exam Validated
👍 11
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert Exam Validated
👍 11
REST API Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 22
gRPC Proxies
Expert
👍 15
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
API Product Strategy
Advanced
👍 22
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
SAML
Expert
👍 23
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 15
mTLS Configuration
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
Data Masking
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 23
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 18
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 1
Response Caching
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 4
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 15
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 21
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced
👍 17
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
Apigee Monetization
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 24
Terraform for Apigee
Expert Exam Validated
👍 7
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 22
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert Exam Validated
👍 7
Environment & Organisation Management
Intermediate
👍 24
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 21
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 16
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 7
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced
👍 6
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Intermediate
👍 21
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 1
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Pan-African FinTech API Platform Engineer | High-Throughput · Telecommunications · Nigeria
Nov 2022 – Jan 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 OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Pan-African FinTech API Platform Engineer | High-Throughput · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Nigeria
Apr 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Pan-African FinTech API Platform Engineer | High-Throughput · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Nigeria
May 2022 – 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Nov 2025
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Mar 2025
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Nov 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Feb 2022
Verified