Karim El-Baz

Karim El-Baz

🔴 Apigee Expert

Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services

Cairo, Egypt 8+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting
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Certificates
3
Projects
40
Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 8 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Egypt and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 3
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 10
Apigee Hybrid
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 13
API Hub
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert
👍 13
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert
👍 1
REST API Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 20
gRPC Proxies
Advanced
👍 6
API Versioning Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 2
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
API Key Management
Advanced
👍 10
JWT / JWS Validation
Intermediate
👍 6
SAML
Intermediate
👍 4
Threat Protection Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 18
Data Masking
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 22
Spike Arrest
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Expert Exam Validated
👍 22
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 18
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 8
Custom Analytics Variables
Intermediate
👍 11
Apigee Monetization
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced
👍 15
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Expert
👍 14
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 4
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert
👍 6
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Advanced
👍 21
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 22
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 7
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced
👍 10
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
API Security Architecture
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services · Government & Public Sector · Egypt
Jun 2024 – Oct 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)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services · Government & Public Sector · Egypt
May 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 #3
Senior API Integration Lead | Telco & Payment Services · Retail & E-Commerce · Egypt
May 2022 – Jul 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE X
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Jun 2025
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Mar 2024
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Aug 2024
Verified