- Age: 31
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Occupation: Founder of a developer API platform
- Income: $120k-$140k
- Education: Bachelor's in Software Engineering
Ethan Cole spends his days obsessing over API documentation and developer experience. The founder of NexusAPI, a fledgling API platform, he's equally comfortable debating REST vs. GraphQL at a meetup as he is debugging rate limit issues at 2 AM. His South of Market apartment doubles as an office, with Post-it-covered monitors mapping out authentication flows. While he dreams of his platform becoming the Stripe of API tooling, today's reality involves hustling for developer mindshare between coffee runs to Sightglass. On weekends, you might find him stress-testing his own APIs or arguing about interface design on GitHub - activities he considers leisure.
Background & daily life
Goals
- Build a developer-friendly API platform that gains traction in the tech community
- Secure seed funding to scale the platform's infrastructure
- Establish partnerships with major SaaS companies
Problems & frictions
- Balancing feature development with maintaining API stability
- Competing with well-funded incumbents in the API tools space
Values
- developer adoption
- technical scalability
Interests
- API design
- platform ecosystems
Media habits
- Hacker News
- The Stack Overflow Blog
- API-focused podcasts