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Chapter № 004 Sep 24, 2024 •21:07

S10 E4: Open Banking Infra: Replacing Insecure Credential-Sharing with Safe Open Brokerage APIs for Millions of Retail Accounts with Brendan Wood, Co-Founder & CEO of SnapTrade

Fintech API Design B2B

In August of 2021, we interviewed Brendan Wood on the podcast to tell the creation story of Passiv. After the recording, the company decided to pivot into a …

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Chapter № 001 Sep 03, 2024 •26:51

S10 E1: The API-to-Agent Translation Layer: Building, Governing, and Securing MCP Servers for the AI Ecosystem with Sagar Batchu, Co-Founder & CEO of Speakeasy

Developer Tools API Design AI Agents

Sagar Batchu was born in Sacramento, but moved to Bangalore after a decade. He has always been interested in how things work, and majored in Physic at his …

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Chapter № 026 May 30, 2024 •26:03

S9 E26: The Generative AI Attack Surface: Bypassing Prompt Injections, Securing LLM Data Flows, and Locking Down the API Layer with Sanjay Nagaraj, Co-Founder & CTO of Traceable AI

Security & Compliance API Design LLM & Generative AI

Sanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences started at home, as his father taught him honesty and integrity and …

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Chapter № 019 Apr 09, 2024 •30:03

S9 E19: The Event-Native API Revolution: Unifying Synchronous Rest and Asynchronous Kafka Pipelines with Linus Håkansson, Chief Product Officer at Gravitee

API Design System Design Real-Time Systems

Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family …

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Chapter № 016 Mar 19, 2024 •25:11

S9 E16: Bypassing Kong and Azure APM: Implementing Global Edge Rate Limiting and Decentralized API Key Governance with James Perkins, Co-founder & CEO of Unkey

Infrastructure API Design Identity & Access

James Perkins did not have a traditional journey to technology, but has been in the space for 16 years. He had planned to be a special education teacher …

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Chapter № 002 Dec 05, 2023 •17:36

S9 E2: The Embedded Payroll Fabric: Bypassing Legacy Monoliths with Developer-First Fintech APIs and Multi-State Compliance Rails with Juan Barroso, Co-Founder & CTO of Salsa

Fintech API Design B2B Compliance & Privacy

Juan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his …

Chapter Sep 21, 2023 •24:45

S8 Bonus: Engineering Conversational Natural Language Engines for Elasticsearch and Overthrowing the SQL Middleman with Tim Tutt, Co-Founder & CEO of ClearQuery

AI & Machine Learning Developer Tools API Design

Tim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different schools in the 1st …

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Chapter № 016 Aug 01, 2023 •19:46

S8 E16: The Death of Static API Docs: Engineering Interactive, Real-Data Code Walkthroughs to Kill Developer Churn with Job Rietbergen, Co-Founder & Former CEO of Alphadoc

API Design Developer Experience

Job Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things - …

Chapter Jun 30, 2023 •19:58

S8 Bonus: The RealReal CTO's Playbook: Engineering Rust-Powered GraphQL Federation at the Network Edge with Fredrik Björk, Founder & CEO of Grafbase

Developer Tools Software Architecture API Design

Fredrik Björk is originally from Sweden, but has spent many years in San Francisco. He got started coding in BASIC on his Commodore 64 (while also playing video …

Chapter Mar 30, 2023 •28:23

S7 Bonus: The Shopify for Fintech: Engineering Low-Code Financial Rails with Ruben Izmailyan of Quiltt

Fintech SaaS API Design

Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually …

Chapter Nov 16, 2022 •21:36

S7 Bonus: The Integration Bottleneck: Reclaiming 50% of R&D Capacity with Michael Zuercher, Co-Founder & CEO of Prismatic

Developer Tools API Design

Michael Zuercher has been in tech since he was young, starting his first company when he was 19 years old. A lot of his path to his current …

Chapter Sep 08, 2022 •31:19

S7 Bonus: The Twilio for PDFs: Converting Messy Business Documents into Developer APIs with Josh Lewis, Co-Founder & CEO of Sensible

Developer Tools API Design

Josh Lewis was fascinated by computers in the late 80's / early 90's. In the early days, he was neighborhood tech support, fixing people's computers around the block. …