Gabriel Thorne

Gabriel Thorne

💎 Apigee Champion Verified Specialist

CDR (Consumer Data Right) Open Banking Apigee Architect

Sydney, Australia 11+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Australia 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
👍 10
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 18
Apigee Hybrid
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
API Hub
Advanced
👍 16
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 15
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 4
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
gRPC Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
API Product Strategy
Advanced
👍 6
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
API Key Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced
👍 20
SAML
Intermediate
👍 9
Threat Protection Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 19
Data Masking
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 12
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Expert
👍 18
Spike Arrest
Expert
👍 7
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 3
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 1
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 11
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
Custom Analytics Variables
Intermediate
👍 16
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
👍 13
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced
👍 4
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 24
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 14
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert
👍 22
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 19
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Expert
👍 6
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 15
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert
👍 3
API Security Architecture
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
CDR (Consumer Data Right) Open Banking Apigee Architect · Telecommunications · Australia
Dec 2024 – 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 X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
CDR (Consumer Data Right) Open Banking Apigee Architect · Financial Services / Banking · Australia
Jun 2023 – Feb 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
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
CDR (Consumer Data Right) Open Banking Apigee Architect · Telecommunications · Australia
Oct 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)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Feb 2024
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Sep 2023
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Feb 2022
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Jan 2022
Verified