Daniel Cooper

Daniel Cooper

🟠 API Architect

API Integration Engineer | SOAP to REST Transformation Policies

Philadelphia, United States 5+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire
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Projects
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Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 5 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across United States and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 5
Apigee Hybrid
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 16
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced
👍 15
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 23
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced
👍 16
API Product Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 24
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 2
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert
👍 16
SAML
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 1
Data Masking
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 6
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced
👍 24
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 2
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert
👍 14
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 13
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
Apigee Monetization
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
API Metrics & KPI Design
Intermediate
👍 4
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 6
Terraform for Apigee
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
Apigee Management API
Expert
👍 2
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Advanced
👍 1
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert
👍 20
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 18
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 21
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 7
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 4
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Integration Engineer | SOAP To REST Transformation Polic · Financial Services / Banking · United States
Aug 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
API Integration Engineer | SOAP To REST Transformation Polic · Retail & E-Commerce · United States
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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Integration Engineer | SOAP To REST Transformation Polic · Retail & E-Commerce · United States
May 2021 – Aug 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Dec 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · May 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Apr 2023
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Sep 2022
Verified