External API Platform
At John Deere Financial, I helped turn an early API-gateway effort into a safer path for dealer software by architecting the platform's first external-facing API with role-based authorization and audit logging. That foundation later matured into a gateway used for both internal and external APIs.
Scope
This was an early attempt to create at John Deere Financial what a product such as Azure API Management provides: a common platform for governing and exposing APIs to internal consumers and dealer software. My part focused on safely exposing a selected business capability outside the company—opening dealer access to sales-lead data without treating security and observability as afterthoughts.
What I built
- The platform’s inaugural external API, architected with role-based authorization and audit logging from day one.
Outcome
The work established a reusable pattern for exposing business-critical data to external partners, with security and auditability designed in rather than bolted on. The early platform later matured into a gateway used to host APIs for both internal and external consumers.