Rachel Hayes

Rachel Hayes

💎 Apigee Champion Verified Specialist

API Product Architect & Governance Strategist | Spec-Driven Design

New York, United States 11+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Consulting Open to Mentoring
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across United States and global enterprises.

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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)
Intermediate
👍 8
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Intermediate
👍 6
Apigee Hybrid
Intermediate
👍 17
API Hub
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
Apigee Developer Portal
Advanced
👍 10
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Expert
👍 13
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 24
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
gRPC Proxies
Intermediate
👍 9
API Versioning Strategy
Expert Exam Validated
👍 1
API Product Strategy
Advanced
👍 7
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
API Key Management
Intermediate
👍 23
JWT / JWS Validation
Intermediate
👍 5
SAML
Intermediate
👍 4
Threat Protection Policies
Expert
👍 16
mTLS Configuration
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 5
Data Masking
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 15
Spike Arrest
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 6
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Expert
👍 24
Response Caching
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Intermediate
👍 6
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Expert Exam Validated
👍 2
Custom Analytics Variables
Intermediate
👍 18
Apigee Monetization
Expert Exam Validated
👍 12
API Metrics & KPI Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 11
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Intermediate
👍 21
Terraform for Apigee
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 23
Apigee Management API
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 14
apigeetool / apigeecli
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 18
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Intermediate
👍 17
Environment & Organisation Management
Intermediate
👍 11
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert Exam Validated
👍 16
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Intermediate
👍 20
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 18
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Expert
👍 10
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 15
API Security Architecture
Advanced
👍 11
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Product Architect & Governance Strategist | Spec-Driven · Logistics & Supply Chain · United States
Jul 2023 – Apr 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 OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Product Architect & Governance Strategist | Spec-Driven · Telecommunications · United States
Mar 2022 – Aug 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 Product Architect & Governance Strategist | Spec-Driven · Healthcare & Life Sciences · United States
Dec 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: 1B+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Aug 2025
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Sep 2025
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Jul 2024
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Dec 2022
Verified