Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade

🔴 Apigee Expert Verified Specialist

AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying

Auckland, New Zealand 7+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting
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Projects
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Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 7 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across New Zealand and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
Apigee Hybrid
Expert
👍 6
API Hub
Intermediate
👍 19
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 21
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Intermediate
👍 18
REST API Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 22
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 17
API Versioning Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 22
API Product Strategy
Expert
👍 20
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert
👍 9
API Key Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
JWT / JWS Validation
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
SAML
Intermediate
👍 23
Threat Protection Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
mTLS Configuration
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
Data Masking
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 22
Spike Arrest
Intermediate
👍 14
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 3
Response Caching
Advanced
👍 11
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
Custom Analytics Variables
Intermediate
👍 18
Apigee Monetization
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 22
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Expert
👍 8
Terraform for Apigee
Expert
👍 24
Apigee Management API
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 7
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert Exam Validated
👍 5
Environment & Organisation Management
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 12
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 19
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 24
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 9
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert
👍 4
API Security Architecture
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying · Financial Services / Banking · New Zealand
Jul 2023 – Dec 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE EDGE CLOUD
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying · Logistics & Supply Chain · New Zealand
May 2023 – 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 OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
AgriTech API Solution Architect | Distributed Edge Proxying · Healthcare & Life Sciences · New Zealand
Feb 2021 – 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Mar 2025
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Jul 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Nov 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Jun 2023
Verified