Lars van Dijk

Lars van Dijk

🔴 Apigee Expert Verified Specialist

Senior Cloud API Platform Engineer | Apigee X on Google Cloud

Amsterdam, Netherlands 8+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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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 Netherlands and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
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)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 6
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 20
API Hub
Advanced
👍 10
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
REST API Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 17
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 17
API Versioning Strategy
Expert
👍 4
API Product Strategy
Intermediate
👍 12
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert
👍 16
SAML
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Threat Protection Policies
Advanced
👍 14
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 17
Data Masking
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 6
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
Response Caching
Intermediate
👍 13
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert
👍 4
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 22
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 4
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
Apigee Monetization
Advanced
👍 19
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced
👍 11
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 2
Terraform for Apigee
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
Apigee Management API
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 7
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Advanced
👍 2
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 7
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 11
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Senior Cloud API Platform Engineer | Apigee X On Google Clou · Government & Public Sector · Netherlands
Oct 2024 – Jun 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 HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Senior Cloud API Platform Engineer | Apigee X On Google Clou · Retail & E-Commerce · Netherlands
Jan 2024 – Feb 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Senior Cloud API Platform Engineer | Apigee X On Google Clou · Retail & E-Commerce · Netherlands
Dec 2022 – 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Apr 2025
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Jul 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Oct 2022
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Aug 2022
Verified