Diego Alvarez

Diego Alvarez

πŸ’Ž Apigee Champion Verified Specialist

FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant

Mexico City, Mexico 10+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 10 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Mexico 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
πŸ”΅ Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 11
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Advanced
πŸ‘ 12
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 2
API Hub
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 17
Apigee Developer Portal
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 24
🟒 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 10
REST API Design
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 17
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 5
gRPC Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 15
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced
πŸ‘ 13
API Product Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 16
🟑 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 7
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 3
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 11
SAML
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 10
Threat Protection Policies
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 3
mTLS Configuration
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 22
Data Masking
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 23
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 1
Spike Arrest
Expert
πŸ‘ 5
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 1
Response Caching
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 2
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 7
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 12
πŸ”΄ Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 1
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 13
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 6
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 14
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
πŸ‘ 13
Terraform for Apigee
Expert
πŸ‘ 1
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 21
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 24
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 22
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 24
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert
πŸ‘ 17
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 19
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 1
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 6
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 19
API Security Architecture
Advanced Exam Validated
πŸ‘ 11
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant Β· Logistics & Supply Chain Β· Mexico
Oct 2024 – Sep 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee APIGEE X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant Β· Logistics & Supply Chain Β· Mexico
Oct 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 #2
FinTech & Retail API Transformation Consultant Β· Logistics & Supply Chain Β· Mexico
Jun 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 HYBRID
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Β· Jun 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud Β· Jan 2024
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud Β· Jul 2023
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services Β· Jan 2023
Verified