Phil Sturgeon has been building APIs professionally since 2010. He’s worked as API/architectural consultant for all sorts of companies, from small startups to WeWork. He wrote about a lot of that in Build APIs You Won’t Hate, and grew a community around that into the largest API-related Slack channel on the internet. Now Phil builds API design tooling at Stoplight, helping with architecture and open-source, solving problems like mocking, linting, and using well designed API descriptions to improve the whole API lifecycle.