API Intersection

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Barb Maclean, who up until very recently worked her entire career at Celero Solutions as a VP of Integrations and Analytics. She is now a founder of her own company barbmaclean.co. With her over twenty years at Celero, a credit union company, she’s helped grow her team exponentially and make transformational change via their API program. She started at the help desk, dabbled in a product role,  and eventually  expanded all the way up to the VP of Integrations and Analytics.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Mathieu Rasse, Founder & CEO of Meta API, a company focused on helping developers to integrate and create automation between the APIs. As a member of the API aggregator space, Mathieu is responsible for spreading the good word about using aggregator platforms like Meta for any OpenAPI integration and educating people about OpenAPI benefits. 

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Olivia Califano, Senior Product Manager, API & Developer Tools at Procore Technologies, a construction management software company. Procore is focused on connecting all the stakeholders in a construction project, from owners to general contractors.

Olivia focuses on API governance and developer tools, ensuring that teams are building with consistency and following best practices and standards. She primarily focuses on internal tooling to support their larger API strategy and external tools such as their API reference documentation and SDKs to help developers onboard.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Ikenna Nwaiwu, API Product Owner at 10x Future Technologies. What helped Ikenna Nwaiwu become a better product manager, a more well-rounded developer, and craft a stronger API strategy was focusing on creating APIs with a product mindset and a design-first approach.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Charles Araujo, Publisher of The Digital Experience Report, industry analyst, and keynote speaker. Charlie has seen it all, from running large-scale transformation programs to authoring "The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change" to founding the Institute for Digital Transformation. This all makes him the perfect guest to dive into the bigger picture of how API technology is truly changing the world on a large scale. 

His recent piece for CIO Online explores the experience economy, the ecosystem mandate, and how API design may be the key to competitive advantage. He explains how "to leverage the power of APIs to connect your ecosystem and deliver compelling experiences, and how you need to begin by taking a strategic and proactive view of APIs" to do it right.

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Developer relations (DevRel) is an increasingly rising industry, growing as a reflection of software's ubiquity in the business world — and the growing power of the developer to influence what products and platforms their employers use.

But, what makes a good Developer Advocate and strong DevRel program? This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Rizel Scarlett, Developer Relations Engineer at Github, to get her opinion on how to measure a DevRel program's success and different platforms Developer Advocates can utilize to reach the developer community.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted Brenton House, Vice President of Digital Evangelism at Software AG. As an API OG who started working with APIs in the 90s, Brenton House is definitely an expert in the API space. His current goal is helping others fully understand the space and get started in the industry. 

For young developers, product people newly saddled with needing to include “APIs” in their products, or for business stakeholders simply wanting to learn more about the industry—this episode is for you! Here are the first three steps to take to dip your toes into the API waters. 

And as a bonus, if you’re REALLY not sure where to even start, check out our “What is an API” guide.

For more great content on API security, check out Brenton's Youtube channel here!

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Gleb Polyakov, Co-founder & CEO at Nylas, a Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) that reimagines business communication via APIs. We talked to Gleb about the pervasiveness of APIs and how you can best involve various stakeholders in your API strategy to ensure success.

Check out Nylas's communication platform here https://www.nylas.com/  -- (Psst! They're hiring)

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Giora Engel, Co-Founder and CEO at Neosec. While API security is always a hot topic (check out our other episode on this with Curity on the matter), we can never get enough of how to improve and ensure it's a vital consideration of the entire API development lifecycle. Giora sat down with us to explain some of the critical things security teams seek from API developers and how we can all partner for secure and effective APIs. 

At the end of the day, visibility into your API development is what the security team seeks, and having it can actually help developers. 

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Shanae Chapman, senior UX researcher at HashiCorp and founder of Nerdy Diva, which focuses on inclusive design and empowering the next generation of designers and developers with knowledge and resources to succeed in a technology career and make for a long-lasting, community impact. 

When it comes to creating a more inclusive API program, Shanae stresses that you should "start with the highest impact, high-priority, high-traffic systems and tools first and then work your way down. It takes time, so have grace with yourself and your teams. As long as you are making progress towards a goal, it matters in the end."

Take a look at Shanae's work, here: https://nerdydiva.com/

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