Dorian Blake
API Engineer
Columbus, OH dorian.blake@example.com +1 (555) 002-1103 dorianblake.example
Profile
API engineer who designs boring, well-documented interfaces. Partners with client teams so breaking changes are rare and versioning is obvious.
Experience
API Engineer
2019 – Present
Latchkey Data · Columbus, OH
- Published an OpenAPI catalog for 22 endpoints and retired 4 undocumented legacy routes.
- Cut p95 of the search API from 610ms to 240ms with covering indexes and a read replica.
- Added consumer contract tests that blocked a field rename from reaching production.
Backend Developer
2016 – 2019
Blue Heron Systems · Columbus, OH
- Built webhook retries with idempotency keys after a partner double-charged 18 invoices.
- Wrote runbooks so on-call engineers could replay a failed batch without guesswork.
Skills
PHP · PostgreSQL · OpenAPI · Redis · HTTP · Contract tests
Education
B.S. Information Technology
2016
Scioto Valley College
Projects
Envelope
Tiny sample API that shows pagination, errors, and idempotent POSTs.