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Phil Sturgeon

Since 2010 I've worked as a freelancer, consultant, API lead, and CTO for several API-centric technology startups. Working as an internal API consultant for WeWork gave me a lot to write about, where I used my experience of things going horribly horribly wrong to help educate developers, define standards for API design and architecture, and implementing full API design lifecycles so we weren't all just building nonsense and hoping it was useful.

Trying to get loads of different questionably built APIs tidied up, playing nicely, and working quickly was a constant source of learning for me and everyone involved. I took a lot of that learning to Stoplight, and helped plan, build, and manage most of your favourite OpenAPI tools.

When I'm not banging on about APIs I'm riding, racing, or crashing various bikes, or saving the plant through Protect Earth, an environmental charity I co-founded in 2020. We create brand new woodlands, restore and extend ancient woodlands, and run around with machetes getting rid of invasive species.

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Episode 292

An Interview with Phil Sturgeon

Published Books

Build APIs You Won't Hate: Second Edition
Build APIs You Won't Hate: Second Edition
Phil Sturgeon
Surviving Other People's APIs
Surviving Other People's APIs
Phil Sturgeon and Mike Bifulco
Catapult into PyroCMS
Catapult into PyroCMS
Phil Sturgeon
PHP: The "Right" Way
PHP: The "Right" Way
Phil Sturgeon and Josh Lockhart
Build APIs You Won't Hate
Build APIs You Won't Hate
Phil Sturgeon

Bundles

Vagrant API's
Vagrant API's
2 Books
APIs at Scale
APIs at Scale
2 Books
APIs and Servers and Whatnot
APIs and Servers and Whatnot
2 Books
Build Node APIs Like a Craftsman!
Build Node APIs Like a Craftsman!
2 Books
Code Smart Laravel APIs
Code Smart Laravel APIs
2 Books

Unpublished Books

Build APIs You Won't Hate (FR)
Build APIs You Won't Hate (FR)
Phil Sturgeon

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