Dino Chiesa
Cloud AI SWE at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDino Chiesa is a seasoned cloud and API engineer with 16 years of experience driving product, field, and engineering alignment at Apigee and Google to accelerate digital transformation. Currently a Cloud AI SWE and formerly an Apigee product/integration specialist and customer engineer, he blends technical sales leadership with hands-on API development and product improvements. Dino has repeatedly translated customer needs into product changes, maintained widely used Apigee sample repos, and created open-source tools and hundreds of instructional code repositories and videos to help >1000 customers. He pairs systems- and product-level thinking—honed at Microsoft and IBM—with pragmatic implementation skills in API integration, error handling, and secure endpoint design. Based in Kirkland, WA, he champions developer communities and GenAI enablement, advocating tools like Gemini CLI and Code Assist to make APIs more useful and ubiquitous. An interesting thread through his career is turning field knowledge into shipped product features that directly win deals and scale customer impact.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (8)
api10
apidoc10
apigee10
javascript9
nodejs9
http8
soap8
bash7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apigee/api-platform-samples
Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
Working samples for the Apigee API Platform
Role in this project:
API Developer / Integration Engineer
API Developer / Integration EngineerContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dino primarily contributed to the Apigee API Platform samples by updating and maintaining existing sample code and configurations. Their work included correcting code for error handling, updating endpoints to use updated BaaS endpoints, and modifying API proxy configurations. The user also updated the simplesoap example to use HTTPS. These commits demonstrate a focus on API integration, maintenance, and adapting samples to reflect changes in the platform.
apiapi-platformapigee
DinoChiesa/ApigeeEdge-BlueGreen-1
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021
An API proxy in Apigee Edge that can do blue/green load distribution based on weights and targets obtained from an external data source.
Contributions:27 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
data-sourceapiblueblue-greenproxy
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