Addison Hart is a recent graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and a software engineer at Verizon on the infrastructure team in Aurora. In addition to his full time work on automation, he has 4 years of experience reverse engineering APIs and homebrewing embedded devices. His most well known work in that space is the public Mario Maker 2 API used by that community. He is an active contributor to local Linux User Groups in the greater Denver area and has given 7 talks on topics ranging from the acquisition and storage of time in computers to the philosophy behind reverse engineering. He has served as the system administrator for the CS department at the Colorado School of Mines for 3 years and specializes in backend and data engineering.

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APIs for the Modern World

Modern day APIs sometimes feel like demos for the main product, but it doesn't have to be that way. Developers continue to innovate by providing new sources of useful data that inspire creative new projects. In this talk, Addison Hart, a reverse engineer and data scientist with experience in geospatial, video game APIs and many others, will talk about what he has learned about making APIs, both from operating them and picking apart existing ones while reverse engineering. He will discuss API latency, quantity, coverage and quality and how these 4 aspects contribute to an APIs effectiveness.

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