Lachlan Taylor

Lachlan Taylor

🔴 Apigee Expert

Cloud Native API Gateway Specialist | Envoy & Apigee Hybrid

Melbourne, Australia 8+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Certificates
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Projects
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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 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)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
Apigee Hybrid
Expert
👍 16
API Hub
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 8
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced
👍 17
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 7
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 3
gRPC Proxies
Advanced
👍 1
API Versioning Strategy
Intermediate
👍 13
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 7
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Intermediate
👍 17
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
SAML
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
Threat Protection Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
mTLS Configuration
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
Data Masking
Expert
👍 5
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
Spike Arrest
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced
👍 6
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 13
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Intermediate
👍 23
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 14
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
Apigee Monetization
Expert
👍 14
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 14
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 13
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 1
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Advanced
👍 14
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 1
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 11
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Cloud Native API Gateway Specialist | Envoy & Apigee Hybrid · Government & Public Sector · Australia
Feb 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Cloud Native API Gateway Specialist | Envoy & Apigee Hybrid · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Australia
Feb 2024 – Dec 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Cloud Native API Gateway Specialist | Envoy & Apigee Hybrid · Government & Public Sector · Australia
Aug 2023 – May 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 HYBRID
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Dec 2025
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Dec 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Nov 2022
Verified