American software engineer and blogger who worked at Amazon and Google, best known for his 2011 accidentally-public Google+ rant that described Jeff Bezos's 'API mandate' — becoming the most cited account of Amazon's platform transformation.
Accidentally published a private memo describing Bezos's internal mandate that all Amazon teams must communicate via APIs and that every service must be designed as if external customers would use it — making this internal operating principle public knowledge and permanently influencing how the tech industry understands platform thinking.
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