Valentina Ricci

Valentina Ricci

🟠 API Architect

API Gateway Operations & Splunk / Cloud Logging Engineer

Rome, Italy 5+ Years Apigee Experience Open to Hire
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Projects
40
Skills Matrix
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Professional Summary

Passionate API specialist with 5 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade Google Cloud Apigee Edge, X, and Hybrid solutions across Italy and global enterprises.

Apigee Competency Radar
Apigee Skill Matrix
🔵 Core Platform
Apigee Edge (On-prem / Hybrid)
Advanced
👍 23
Apigee X (GCP-native)
Expert
👍 15
Apigee Hybrid
Expert Exam Validated
👍 9
API Hub
Advanced
👍 10
Apigee Developer Portal
Intermediate
👍 22
🟢 API Design & Management
OpenAPI / Swagger Specification
Intermediate
👍 18
REST API Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 13
GraphQL Proxies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 6
gRPC Proxies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 8
API Versioning Strategy
Intermediate
👍 15
API Product Strategy
Advanced
👍 15
🟡 Security & Policies
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
Expert
👍 5
API Key Management
Expert Exam Validated
👍 3
JWT / JWS Validation
Advanced
👍 4
SAML
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 10
Threat Protection Policies
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 20
mTLS Configuration
Expert Exam Validated
👍 21
Data Masking
Expert
👍 12
🟠 Traffic Management
Quota & Rate Limiting
Advanced
👍 10
Spike Arrest
Expert Exam Validated
👍 10
Load Balancing & Target Servers
Intermediate
👍 16
Response Caching
Expert Exam Validated
👍 13
Fault Handling & Error Policies
Expert Exam Validated
👍 19
Conditional Flows & Route Rules
Expert
👍 5
🔴 Analytics & Monetization
Apigee Analytics & Reports
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 13
Custom Analytics Variables
Expert
👍 1
Apigee Monetization
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 19
API Metrics & KPI Design
Expert Exam Validated
👍 20
🟣 DevOps & Automation
CI/CD for Apigee (Maven / GitHub Actions)
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
Terraform for Apigee
Intermediate
👍 18
Apigee Management API
Intermediate
👍 3
apigeetool / apigeecli
Intermediate
👍 1
Shared Flows & Flow Hooks
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
Environment & Organisation Management
Intermediate
👍 4
⚫ Architecture
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Expert Exam Validated
👍 4
Microservices & API Gateway Design
Advanced Exam Validated
👍 24
Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub + Apigee)
Intermediate
👍 2
Multi-cloud API Strategy
Intermediate
👍 1
API Governance & Lifecycle Management
Intermediate
👍 3
API Security Architecture
Intermediate
👍 2
Enterprise Project Experience
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #1
API Gateway Operations & Splunk / Cloud Logging Engineer · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Italy
Oct 2024 – 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 APIGEE X
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #2
API Gateway Operations & Splunk / Cloud Logging Engineer · Government & Public Sector · Italy
Mar 2024 – Sep 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: 500M+ calls/month
Apigee APIGEE HYBRID
Enterprise API Gateway Modernization Project #3
API Gateway Operations & Splunk / Cloud Logging Engineer · Financial Services / Banking · Italy
Jul 2022 – Sep 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: 100M+ calls/month
Apigee OPDK (ON-PREMISES)
Credentials & Certifications
External Credentials
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · Sep 2024
Verified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Apr 2023
Verified
Google Cloud Certified Professional API Engineer
Google Cloud · Mar 2023
Verified
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Sep 2022
Verified