DILIPKUMAR K
Summary
Software Engineer with 6+ years of IT experience specializing in API development, Apigee API gateway, backend engineering, and production support. Strong background in designing secure, scalable REST APIs, building API proxy flows, implementing metering/throttling, debugging, and performance tuning. Deep hands-on experience with Java, AWS services, microservices, and monitoring tools like Splunk. Adept at collaborating in fast-paced Agile environments, delivering innovative solutions, and supporting critical enterprise systems.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Cognizant – Apigee Developer (Client: Suncorp)
2022 - Current
- Designed and developed Apigee API proxies including security (OAuth2, API Key), quota, spike arrest, caching, traffic management, request/response transformations, and backend integrations.
- Implemented custom analytics and monitoring mechanisms for API performance visibility.
- Conducted continuous monitoring of API logs and performance metrics using Splunk, ensuring availability and detecting anomalies early.
- Worked with AWS services: EC2, CloudWatch, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk.
- Ensured API performance, reliability, and adherence to enterprise security standards.
- Performed regular Apigee environment health checks and API traffic analysis.
- Supported production issues, root cause analysis, and coordinated with multiple teams for resolution.
- Prepared technical documentation, design specifications, flow diagrams, and API definitions.
- Suncorp offers a wide suite of consumer insurance services.
Cognizant – Api Developer (Client: D&B)
2019 - 2022
- Built API gateway components using Apigee for authentication, authorization, throttling, and metering.
- Built custom Splunk apps to extract insights and support API monitoring.
- Performed unit testing using Postman and contributed to production issue resolution.
- Collaborated with architecture teams to improve transactional throughput and API reliability.
- Participated in production issue resolution, debugging logs, tracing errors, and proposing fixes.
- Configured metering logic (hourly/daily/weekly) to control user transaction limits based on type and usage.
- Improved DAO and service component performance, reducing processing time significantly.
- Finds the performance glitches and finding the solutions to make an application quicker.
- Built integrations connecting disparate backend systems to deliver seamless end-to-end transactions.
- Performed Apigee environment health checks, including node performance, logs, caches, target server stability, and message processors.
- D&B provides commercial data services across the US and UK.
Education
B.E - Computer Science Engineering
Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology
01-2016
Skills
- Apigee
- API Proxy
- OAuth2
- JWT
- EC2
- AWS Lambda
- CloudWatch
- S3
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Java
- JavaScript
- C
- Splunk
- Jenkins
- Git
- JIRA
- IntelliJ
- SourceTree
- Postman
- SQL
- JSON
- XML
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- HTML
- CSS
Timeline
Cognizant – Apigee Developer (Client: Suncorp)
2022 - Current
Cognizant – Api Developer (Client: D&B)
2019 - 2022
B.E - Computer Science Engineering
Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology