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Kong Plugin Development\nStrong demonstrated experience in custom Kong plugin development using Lua, Python and Kong PDK\nStrong demonstrated experience in Kong lifecycle management\nAuthentication, authorization, transformation, traffic control, and logging plugins\nPlugin testing, debugging, optimization, versioning, and deployment\n2. Kong Administration\nKong Gateway installation, configuration, and administration\nArchitecture, clustering, HA, and load balancing\nKong Admin API, and best practices\nService/route/upstream/consumer/plugin management\nPerformance tuning, SSL/TLS management, upgrades, monitoring\n3. Development\nStrong demonstrated experience in Lua, Python, Kong SDK and Java\nMicroservices, async programming (asyncio), and database connectivity\nMessage queue integration (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and Azure SDK\nMiddleware automation, ETL scripts, and monitoring solutions\nTesting and code quality\n4. 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