Luciana Castro

Luciana Castro

🔴 Apigee Expert Verified Specialist

Banking API Gateway Specialist | ISO 20022 Modernization

Bogota, Colombia 8+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting
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Certificates
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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 Colombia and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
Apigee Hybrid
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
API Hub
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 23
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 17
GraphQL Proxies
Intermediate
👍 16
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 14
API Versioning Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 24
API Product Strategy
Expert
👍 2
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
API Key Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
SAML
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
Threat Protection Policies
Expert
👍 15
mTLS Configuration
Advanced
👍 17
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 13
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Spike Arrest
Expert
👍 21
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 2
Response Caching
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Intermediate
👍 12
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
Apigee Monetization
Expert Exam Validated
👍 18
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 7
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 24
Apigee Management API
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
apigeetool / apigeecli
Expert
👍 11
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
Environment & Organisation Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Intermediate
👍 19
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Advanced
👍 8
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 24
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 1
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 24
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
Banking API Gateway Specialist | ISO 20022 Modernization · Telecommunications · Colombia
Jul 2022 – Jan 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
Banking API Gateway Specialist | ISO 20022 Modernization · Financial Services / Banking · Colombia
Dec 2022 – Jan 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
Banking API Gateway Specialist | ISO 20022 Modernization · Retail & E-Commerce · Colombia
Jul 2021 – 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Oct 2023
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · May 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Nov 2023
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · May 2022
Verified