TIEBE TEWELDE
APIGEE Developer | API Integration Specialist
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Professional Summary
● 10+ years of IT experience using different applications such as Microsoft SQL Server,
Apigee API Management, and MuleSoft.
● Experienced in RESTful API design principles.
● Strong experience in healthcare, insurance, financial, retail, and billing domains.
● Experienced with API testing tools like Postman and SoapUI.
● Worked with Trace and Debug API troubleshooting tools.
● Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT, and XML with web services and messaging
services like SOAP and WSDL.
● Worked with security protocols and API security such as OAuth 2.0, TLS, JWT, and
API key verification.
● Experience in designing, developing, securing, debugging, analyzing, monitoring, and
monetizing APIs for the healthcare payer/provider market.
● Delivered training and provided 24/7 support for medical staff regarding API services.
● Gathered and assessed needs from internal business units.
● Created custom solutions to resolve issues and developed functional specifications.
● Automated previously manual, time-consuming processes to improve data accuracy,
workgroup efficiency, and profitability.
● Expertise in creating user validation forms and sending data to servers using RESTful
services.
● Troubleshooting and monitoring API proxies running on Apigee using the Trace tool.
● Deployed Apigee message processors and routers in development, testing, staging, and
production environments.
● Extensive experience with Anypoint Platform and CloudHub, with additional expertise in
on-premise and hybrid deployment topologies.
● Strong experience with web services (REST and SOAP).
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● Developed RAML, YAML, Swagger, and WSDL specifications.
● Excellent ability to develop message flows using HTTP, REST, File, MQ, SOAP,
Aggregate, Collector, SAP, Database, Mapping, and Timer.
● Strong knowledge of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, REST, and SOAP.
● Extensive experience in API management, security, single sign-on (SSO), OAuth, Client
ID/Secret Key, and SSL implementation.
● Experienced in versioning and deployment strategies using Maven, Jenkins, and
GitHub.
● Open to new ideas and adaptable to changing technologies, often building proof of
concepts (POCs).
● A strong combination of business process analysis, technical expertise, and
communication skills while collaborating with both IT and business teams.
Education
Master of Science - in Accounting & Finance from Mekelle University, 2018, Mekelle,
Ethiopia.
Work Exerpience
APIGEE Developer: HCL America
Mar 2024–Aug 2024
● Worked on Apigee security APIs, including Basic Authentication, OAuth, SAML, JWT,
and API Key.
● Performed regular health checks and monitored the performance of the Apigee
environment.
● Good knowledge and experience with Git and Maven for the build process.
● Extensive experience with client testing tools, including Postman and SoapUI.
● Good knowledge of JavaScript and SQL databases.
● Developed REST and SOAP APIs using Apigee API Management.
● Experienced in creating developer portals and publishing APIs.
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● Set up CI/CD processes for proxy deployment and provided support for APIs throughout
their entire lifecycle.
● Worked with Trace and Debug API troubleshooting tools.
● Implemented security APIs using Basic Authentication, OAuth, and SAML.
● Collaborated with business teams to understand requirements and assist in creating
developer applications.
● Good knowledge of Java and Spring Boot.
● Created JavaScript policies to modify requests and responses at runtime.
● Actively participated in technical meetings, requirements gathering, analysis, planning,
effort estimations, development, and testing.
APIGEE Developer: TRUIST
Mar 2022–Dec 2023
● Designed, developed, configured, and troubleshooted proxy APIs and policies using
Apigee.
● Created Proxies, Products, and Apps.
● Developed REST and SOAP APIs using Apigee API Management.
● Experienced in RESTful API design principles.
● Worked with security protocols and API security, including OAuth 2.0, TLS, JWT, and
API key verification.
● Created shared flows using Apigee, adding policies and logging.
● Experienced in creating Swagger documentation and API specifications.
● Worked with caching, flow hooks, flow callout, key-value maps, assign message policy,
extract variable policy, quota, spike arrest policy, etc.
● Utilized Apigee features and functions, including security, throttling, OAuth, and adding
TLS certificates.
Environment: Webservices, Rally, JIRA, GIT ,APIGEE Edge, Splunk, AWS, YAML, JSON,
XML, RAML, SoapUI, Postman, SVN, Apache-Maven 3.3.9, Apigee Edge, SOAP, WSDL,
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MMC , XPATH, GitLab CloudHub, Log4j 1.2.14, API Gateway2.1, Anypoint Studio 6.5/7.5, ,
ActiveMQ 5.3.
APIGEE Developer: Chamber Inc.
April 2018–Jan 2022
● Experienced in creating REST and SOAP API proxies using the API management
platform.
● Experienced in developing REST and SOAP APIs using Apigee API Management.
● Worked on creating shared flows using Apigee, adding policies and logging.
● Created shared flows for authorization, error handling, threat protection, and request
tracking.
● Created assign message policies to use values at runtime from KVM.
● Worked on creating shared flows to be used across all API proxies to capture proxy and
target request and response.
● Experienced in RESTful API design principles.
● Worked on Trace and Debug API troubleshooting tools.
● Created flows that provide and consume services (SOAP & RESTful).
● Created API documentation in a wiki for all APIs.
● Created builds using Jenkins and Bamboo and deployed them to environments using CI.
● Created logging using Loggly and Kibana and tested it with the application team.
Environment: Webservices, JIRA, GIT, AWS, , RAML, SoapUI, Postman, SVN, Apache-
Maven 3.3.9, Apigee Edge, SOAP, WSDL, MMC , XPATH, Jenkins CloudHub, Log4j 1.2.14,
API Gateway2.1, Anypoint Studio 6.5/7.5, ActiveMQ 5.3.
SQL Server DBA/ SQL Server Developer: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
Oct 2013–Jan 2018
● Installed the SQL Server 2000 and 2005/2012/2014/2016 at the beginning of the project.
Administered the MS SQL Server by creating user logins with appropriate roles, dropping
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and locking the logins, monitoring the user accounts, creation of groups, granting the
privileges to users and groups.
● Created and managed schema objects – tables, views, clusters, indexes, procedures, and
triggers.
● Managed the use of disk space, memory, and connections, and monitored MS SQL Server
performance and network issues.
● Managed the use of disk space, memory, and connections. Ran DBCC consistency checks
and analyzed stack traces, if generated.
● Generated reports for day-to-day activities and assigned the database users to groups.
● Handled database and log backups & restoration, backup strategies, and scheduled
backups.
● Implemented SQL Server high availability tools like Log shipping and used Failover
clustering, as well as carefully scheduled maintenance to minimize downtime.
● Solved concurrency problems of blocks, locks, and deadlocks by viewing and tracking
them using Activity Monitor, Management Studio summary page, and Profiler.
● Created the SQL Server Integration Services and DTS Packages for executing the
required tasks.
● Managed the use of disk space, memory, and connections. Ran DBCC consistency checks
and analyzed stack traces, if generated.
● Assigned the database users to groups.
● Handled database and log backups & restoration, backup strategies, and scheduled
backups.
● Implemented SQL Server high availability tools like Log shipping and used Failover
clustering, as well as carefully scheduled maintenance to minimize downtime.
● Solved concurrency problems of blocks, locks, and deadlocks by viewing and tracking
them using Activity Monitor, Management Studio summary page, and Profiler.
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