Varun Agarwal
Apigee Specialist
Toronto,ON
Summary
- Extensive experience in architecting, implementing, and maintaining APIs on the Apigee Edge platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security of API ecosystems.
- Proficient in designing RESTful APIs adhering to industry standards and specifications, including Open API (formerly Swagger), and API Blueprint.
- Skilled in API security mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, OAuth token validation, and API key management, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
- Applied best practices in API security and secure coding, including OWASP API Security Top 10.
- Adept at optimizing API performance through traffic management techniques, caching strategies, rate limiting, and payload transformation.
- Experienced in API governance practices including versioning, deprecation, documentation, and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Experience integrating API security solutions into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure continuous testing, monitoring, and vulnerability detection.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, and familiar with Bash scripting for automation tasks.
- Familiar with runtime security concepts, traffic monitoring, to discover and manage API security threats.
- Skilled in monitoring API platform performance and adjusting configurations to meet KPIs and SLAs for threat detection, blocking, and prevention.
- Experience in AWS/GCP managed services like Compute Engine, GKE, EC2, S3, Aurora, RDS, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS
- In-depth knowledge of protocols like OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT for secure API authentication and authorization.
- Knowledge of API security testing tools (DAST, AST) and API runtime protection platforms.
- Experience in scripting/automation, Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP), administration, designing, managing servers, software installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, build, deployment, and process.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consultant
15205077 Canada Inc
Toronto
01.2024 - Current
- Canada Post (Contractor via IBM) - Developer Portal Enhancement
- Developed a comprehensive Drupal-based Developer Portal for Canada Post, enabling developers to explore and test APIs.
- Designed and implemented a Documents section to showcase API documentation, integrated with Swagger UI for seamless API testing and exploration.
- Collaborated with IBM's API Connect framework, ensuring secure and robust API accessibility for Canada Post's developer community.
- EMTP - Website Migration
- Led the migration of EMTP's website from PHP to Drupal 9 and subsequently upgraded to Drupal 10 to improve site stability and performance.
- Integrated HubSpot for streamlined lead generation, enabling effective tracking and conversion of potential clients.
- Delivered a high-quality, scalable website architecture, enhancing user experience and supporting future content updates.
Sr. Technical Lead
iVedha Inc
Toronto
10.2021 - 12.2023
- Spearheaded the design and implementation of robust APIs utilizing the Apigee platform for enterprise clients, including Canada's largest bank by market capitalization, enhancing operational efficiency across client interactions.
- Enhanced API performance by integrating caching mechanisms, establishing quota policies for users, and implementing effective rate limiting strategies.
- Acted as a technical lead for cross-functional teams, including Development, Operations, Compliance, and Risk, ensuring alignment and smooth implementation of API security solutions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to diagnose and troubleshoot complex API related issues on Apigee management gateway.
- Automated the calculation of a report (presented to CXO's) which shows the key KPIs of APIs Reuse and Cost Avoidance happened across the organization with Google Apigee management gateway.
- Managed the end-to-end integration of Apigee management gateway for multiple clients, resolving API related issues with an average resolution time of less than 24 hours.
- Experience working in a regulated environment, such as a financial institution, with knowledge of relevant compliance frameworks like GDPR, PCI-DSS.
- Proficient in managing Apigee components including Control Plane and Runtime Plane to ensure efficient API lifecycle management and runtime optimization.
Sr. Technical Lead
SID Global Solutions
Hyderabad
03.2019 - 10.2021
- Led the team of 8+ developers for ensuring adherence to best practices, architectural standards, and project timelines.
- Developed and maintained APIs using Apigee platform for a range of clients in industries including finance, healthcare, etc.
- Implemented API policies for traffic management, security, and transformation.
- Integrated APIs with backend systems and third-party services to enable seamless data exchange.
- Conducted API performance testing and troubleshooting to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into technical specifications and API design documents.
- Led the design and development of APIs using Apigee platform for multiple financial clients in India.
Consultant
Genpact
Hyderabad
03.2018 - 02.2019
- Developed and executed a comprehensive Drupal-based developer portal, utilizing PHP, Symfony framework, and Twig theming engine, increasing user adoption by 30% and reducing onboarding time by 50%.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to diagnose and troubleshoot complex API related issues on Apigee management gateway.
- Conducted accessibility audits and remediation efforts on existing Drupal sites to identify and address accessibility barriers and ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
- Migrated the Developer Portal from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and 9 using composer and updating all Symfony required dependencies.
Apigee Developer
Castle Realties
Pune
03.2016 - 02.2018
- Developed and launched a user-friendly CRM portal utilizing Drupal platform, resulting in a 30% increase in the efficiency of sales team.
- Incorporated advanced data analytics features into the portal to provide real-time insights on lead generation, property inventory management, and sales performance.
- Created customized reports and dashboards for senior management to track KPIs such as conversion rates, pipeline progression, and agent performance.
Software Developer
Indian Lancer
Indore
12.2014 - 02.2016
- Worked on an advertising platform built in Drupal for promoting and monetizing mobile applications. Like Ad Mob, it allows application developers to promote their products through in-app ads, monetize their applications by enabling in-app advertising.
- Worked on building custom forms, custom pages, and custom theme in Drupal 7.
Education
Post-Graduate Program - Cloud Computing
Great Lakes Executive Learning Institute
01.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - undefined
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
07.2014
Skills
- PHP
- HTML
- Python
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Shell scripting
- Bash
- HTTP/HTTPS
- REST
- SOAP
- GraphQL
- GRPC
- FTP
- SFTP
- SSH
- OAuth2
- OIDC
- JWT
- MySQL
- MS SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- Cassandra
- Apigee OPDK
- Apigee Edge
- Apigee Hybrid
- Apigee X
- CA API Gateway
- IBM API Management
- FileZilla Client/Server
- CURL
- POST Man
- Eclipse
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Windows
- Ubuntu
- RHEL 7
- RHEL 8
- CentOS
- MacOS
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Azure
- Acquia Cloud
- Pantheon
- Atlassian Jira
- Waterfall
- Agile Scrum
- Project Management
- Client relationship management
- Estimating and Scheduling
- ELK
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Atom
- Sublime Text
- Visual Studio Code
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Google Kubernetes engine (GKE)
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Websites
Certification
- API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
- Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
- Acquia Certified Drupal 8 Grand Master
- API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
Timeline
Consultant
15205077 Canada Inc
01.2024 - Current
Sr. Technical Lead
iVedha Inc
10.2021 - 12.2023
Sr. Technical Lead
SID Global Solutions
03.2019 - 10.2021
Consultant
Genpact
03.2018 - 02.2019
Apigee Developer
Castle Realties
03.2016 - 02.2018
Software Developer
Indian Lancer
12.2014 - 02.2016
Post-Graduate Program - Cloud Computing
Great Lakes Executive Learning Institute
Bachelor of Engineering - undefined
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
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