Praveen Kumar

Apigee Developer with 3 years of experience in designing, developing, deploying, and securing APIs using Apigee Hybrid. Proven expertise in API gateway migrations, authentication mechanisms, CI/CD automation, and performance optimization. Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams including networking and security.

Apigee Developer at Cognizant (2022-02 – Present)

Developed and maintained 70+ real-time APIs using Apigee Hybrid, including both new client intakes and migration from CA Layer 7.

• Developed and maintained 70+ real-time APIs using Apigee Hybrid, including both new client intakes and migration from CA Layer 7
• Set up Apigee environments for scalable API onboarding
• Automated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Bitbucket
• Installed and configured Apigee Hybrid using ApigeeCTL
• Implemented authentication: Azure AD, HMAC, MTLS, OAuth, AWS STS, JWT, Basic Auth
• Applied API policies: Rate Limiting, Caching, Logging, Encryption/Decryption, etc.
• Used Swagger validation, CORS, and XSLT for transformations
• Coordinated DNS configuration and Akamai integration
• Monitored APIs using ELK stack and provided support
• Developed a Bash script that recursively finds hostnames and ports listed in the config files of APIS across versioning
• Developed a python script which fetches the target server hostnames information from management Apis and makes a firewall connectivity check between APIGW and Backend server
• Developed custom JavaScript policy for multipart schema validation
• Created shared flow for M2M auth via Azure AD and AWS Signature V4
• Designed shared flow to validate Apigee portal credentials using Base64 auth headers

B.E. in Industrial Engineering – College of Engineering, Guindy - Anna University (2021-04)