Skill
API Design (REST & Beyond)
Designing scalable APIs with a focus on consistency, clarity, and long-term maintainability across systems.
I consider API design one of the core skills in software engineering: the ability to define clear, consistent interfaces that allow systems to interact in a reliable and efficient way.
I particularly appreciate the REST approach, which — while not always optimal in every context — remains a strong default choice in many real-world applications due to its simplicity, predictability, and widespread adoption.
More generally, I prefer reasoning at the level of API design rather than focusing on language-specific implementations, whether in Go handlers, Django views, or other frameworks. The real value, in my view, lies in abstraction and system-level thinking: designing interfaces that remain stable, expressive, and independent from the underlying technology stack.