Layla Haddad

Layla Haddad

🟠 API Architect

Senior API Quality Engineer & Security Reviewer

Beirut, Lebanon 6+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire
3,100
Reputation XP
0
Certificates
3
Projects
40
Skills Matrix
472
Endorsements
214
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 6 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Lebanon and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 9
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Expert
👍 11
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 12
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 12
Apigee Developer Portal
Advanced
👍 14
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
GraphQL Proxies
Expert
👍 13
gRPC Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
API Versioning Strategy
Intermediate
👍 6
API Product Strategy
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 16
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 6
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
👍 8
SAML
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 7
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
mTLS Configuration
Intermediate
👍 10
Data Masking
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 20
Spike Arrest
Expert
👍 18
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 9
Response Caching
Expert Exam Validated
👍 7
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 20
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
👍 23
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 23
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
Apigee Monetization
Intermediate
👍 1
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 23
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 21
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 13
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 20
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert
👍 1
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 21
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 14
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
API Security Architecture
Advanced
👍 19
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Senior API Quality Engineer & Security Reviewer · Retail & E-Commerce · Lebanon
May 2024 – Feb 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 X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Senior API Quality Engineer & Security Reviewer · Telecommunications · Lebanon
Nov 2023 – Apr 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Senior API Quality Engineer & Security Reviewer · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Lebanon
Jul 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Sep 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Jul 2024
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Jul 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Sep 2022
Verified