Naledi Sithole

Naledi Sithole

🟡 API Engineer

API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner

Cape Town, South Africa 4+ Years Apigee Experience
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Certificates
3
Projects
39
Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 4 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across South Africa and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Intermediate
👍 10
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 6
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 2
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee Developer Portal
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Advanced
👍 2
REST API Design
Intermediate
👍 6
GraphQL Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 7
gRPC Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 15
API Product Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
API Key Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 9
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
SAML
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 1
Threat Protection Policies
Expert
👍 7
mTLS Configuration
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
Data Masking
Intermediate
👍 12
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 18
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 7
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Expert
👍 5
Response Caching
Expert Exam Validated
👍 14
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Intermediate
👍 24
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
👍 24
Custom Analytics Variables
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Apigee Monetization
Expert
👍 23
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Advanced
👍 12
Terraform for Apigee
Advanced
👍 11
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 14
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 19
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 23
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 21
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert
👍 10
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 22
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert
👍 3
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert
👍 2
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 10
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner · Government & Public Sector · South Africa
May 2023 – 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner · Healthcare & Life Sciences · South Africa
Jul 2022 – 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
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Developer & Cloud Microservices Practitioner · Retail & E-Commerce · South Africa
Sep 2021 – Nov 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Oct 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Nov 2022
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Jul 2022
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Nov 2022
Verified