Dinesh Kumar Musini

Senior Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions

02.2021 - Current

Led the design and development of RESTful APIs using Google Apigee Edge, IBM DataPower, and IBM APIC, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and standards such as REST, JSON, and OAuth 2.0. Collaborated closely with solution architects and business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable and efﬁcient API designs.
Implemented custom policies in Google Apigee Edge to address speciﬁc project requirements, including security enforcement, trafﬁc management, rate limiting, and request/response transformation. Implemented API caching strategies that reduced latency and improved response times by 30%.
Integrated Apigee with middleware and backend systems, enabling seamless data exchange and integration with enterprise applications, while ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, and internal policies.
Optimized API usage tracking and analytics in Apigee, resulting in 40% increase in API efficiency and reducing response time by 25% for enhanced user experience by comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to track API usage, latency, errors, and anomalies in real-time. Proactively identiﬁed and addressed issues to minimize downtime and ensure high availability and reliability of API services.
Implemented robust security controls and access management policies in Google Apigee Edge and IBM DataPower, including OAuth 2.0 authentication, JWT validation, and API key enforcement, to protect sensitive data and mitigate security risks. Conducted security assessments and penetration tests to identify and remediate vulnerabilities proactively.
Set up monitoring and analytics solutions within Apigee to track API usage, performance, and health, while also managing developer portal, ensuring proper API versioning and documentation, and providing support to developers for seamless upgrades and changes.
Demonstrated expertise in XML/XSL, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema, WSDL, Web Services, SOAP, and REST, utilizing tools like SOAP UI, RESTClient-UI, Wireshark, and OpenSSL for efﬁcient data handling, transformation, and thorough testing of integrated systems.
Proﬁcient in generating keys, Certiﬁcate Signing Requests (CSRs), and self-signed certiﬁcates using cryptographic tools, ensuring secure communication.
Conducted thorough code reviews to identify potential issues early in development cycle, preventing costly rework later on

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