Gabriel Santos

Gabriel Santos

💎 Apigee Champion Verified Specialist

Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway Lead

São Paulo, Brazil 12+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Brazil 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)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 12
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
API Hub
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 22
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 9
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
GraphQL Proxies
Intermediate
👍 16
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 6
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 19
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 16
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
SAML
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Threat Protection Policies
Intermediate
👍 4
mTLS Configuration
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
Data Masking
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Intermediate
👍 22
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 14
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced
👍 6
Response Caching
Advanced
👍 7
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Intermediate
👍 8
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 5
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced
👍 11
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
👍 9
API Metrics & KPI Design
Intermediate
👍 5
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 17
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 16
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 9
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 7
Environment & Organisation Management
Intermediate
👍 14
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert
👍 21
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 6
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
API Security Architecture
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway · Telecommunications · Brazil
Apr 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 APIGEE X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Brazil
Aug 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Principal API Architect | Open Finance Brazil & Pix Gateway · Telecommunications · Brazil
Apr 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: 10M - 50M calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Feb 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Apr 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Feb 2024
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Jul 2023
Verified