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Rakuten RapidAPI

An API marketplace.

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RapidAPI

RapidAPI is a API marketplace that allows developers to access APIs from a variety of providers in a single location.

Rakuten RapidAPI was launched in July 2018 through a strategic partnership with RapidAPI. At the time Rakuten RapidAPI offered access to the world’s largest API marketplace, including a rich lineup of over 8,000 APIs used by over (at the time) 500,000 developers around the world.

I joined around this time and headed up the developer advocacy program as an evangelist. I built the 'champions' program from scratch and recruited fans of the platform as 'champions' from japan, india, singapore, and other parts of asia.

Aside from Dev Japan and Design Japan, this was my other major work as a developer evangelist.