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About me

I am a software engineer and architect who specializes in APIs.

I have more than 14 years of experience creating software in various industries and technologies, always with a focus on quality. Currently, I am working as an API Architect at Postman, guiding engineering teams to create high-quality APIs and a better product for the millions of developers using Postman.

Both mentor and mentee, I am committed to sharing knowledge in the tech community. I am also the organizer of the API Athens meetup.

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I am currently living in Athens, Greece, but am available to participate remotely in projects anywhere in the world. If you’re interested, check out my social media links, send me an email or book a call.

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Advanced Encryption Standard

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a specification for how electronic data should be encrypted that was published by the National Insitute for Standards in Technology (NIST) in the U.S. in 2001 https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/privacy/illustrated-guide-advanced-encryption-standard?utm_medium=email&utm_source=marketo&mkt_tok=MTk5LVFERS0yOTEAAAGTfWHXbMeay5dEA78XJDcrELbG96ewhrXEctQc2eHKwAZXhDiPTQAc3VfKce7JKG_WxHuTk8JSwgDCi3K26nb3Zo9UfC7qi7F7eGy_k_KMJVVombQ
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Respectful Disagreements

When you disagree with someone in words while being truly agreeable in demeanor, many people will match your conduct. They will discuss with you rather than attack you.
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API Design Guidelines Impact

A list of key finding to illustrate the impact of AIP Guidelines in the areas of API consumption and API production: API Production: Increased Requirement Fulfillment: A controlled developer experiment showed that developers using API Improvement Proposals (AIPs) and an API linter achieved a 10% higher requirement fulfillment rate compared to those without any protocols. Feedback Utility: Among developers using the linter tool alongside AIPs, 75% found it beneficial, aiding significantly in refining their API designs.
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API Usability Challenges

API Designer role

The Strategy Tax

Benchmarking

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