Data API platform · Yuqi Hou case study

YUQI HOU

data API platformmarket data over APIs, plus the developer portal and docs that made people actually use it.The platform delivered financial market data through APIs that powered dashboards, portfolio analytics and graph-based apps. But complex data services were hard to find and use, and other teams needed to onboard their data reliably.

Onboarded other teams’ data onto the platform and helped launch its first developer product, which became the model for future APIs.

Led alerting and data-quality checks, plus a vendor ticketing and support onboarding initiative.

Launched a developer portal with guides for both technical and non-technical users.

Started as a developer advocate: ran API hackathons, wrote technical guides, and demoed the APIs on client sales calls.

99.99% service availability SLO

−17% engineering support load

150+ hackathon attendees, US & EMEA

20M+ API requests a day on the platform