# Kin Lane (@kinlane.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/kinlane.bsky.social
Headline: I am Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer (CCO) for Naftiko, modernizing API integrations, while also performing as the API Evangelist, making sense of the technology, business, policies & people of APIs since 2010.

## About

I am the API Evangelist, making sense of the technology, business, policies, and people of APIs since 2010. In 2025 I started another journey as the Chief Community Officer (CCO) for Naftiko, bringing my API experience to help shape the integration and automation converation.

## Career

- **Chief Community Officer (CCO) at Naftiko** (Jun 2025 - Present)
  Leading the open-source core of the Naftiko mission to modernize API consumption for cloud-native developers, enabling seamless and innovative API integrations that drive efficiency and enable versatile use cases, while elevating developer experiences.
- **API Evangelist at API Evangelist** (Jul 2010 - Present)
  I study the technology, business, and politics of APIs, publishing my thoughts to API Evangelist (apievangelist.com) as I work through what I am seeing.
- **API Governance Lead at Bloomberg** (Jul 2023 - Aug 2024)
  I was leading API governance at Bloomberg, helping standardize how their financial data, news, and other information is put to work around the globe.
- **Chief Evangelist at Postman** (Sep 2019 - Jun 2023)
  My work at Postman is an extension of the API life cycle work I have done as API Evangelist, but involves helping enterprise organizations and government agencies actually apply my learnings using a proven API platform that 10M users are already using across the enterprise.
- **Advisor at Skylight Digital LLC** (Jan 2017 - Jan 2020)
  New York
  Skylight is a digital government consultancy driven by making government work in a digital world through design, technology, and procurement. https://skylight.digital/
- **API Architect at F5 Networks** (Jan 2019 - Aug 2019)
- **Presidential Innovation Fellow at Department of Veterans Affairs** (Jun 2013 - Oct 2013)
  In August I will be starting as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, working at the Department of Veterans Affairs, assisting in the streamlining of partner relations using APIs.
- **Contributor at ProgrammableWeb** (Apr 2011 - Aug 2012)
  I am writing more for ProgrammableWeb on APIs.
  
  I try to stay focused on the business of APIs, but find myself covering new APIs, features, and other API industry related news.
- **API Evangelist for CityGrid at CityGrid** (Dec 2011 - May 2012)
  Hollywood, CA
  I'm helping get the word out about CityGrid Places, Content and Advertising APIs.
- **API Evangelist at Mimeo** (Oct 2010 - Dec 2011)
  New York
  I was the API Evangelist for Mimeo.com web to print company.
  
  I managed the family of print API and enterprise print connectors.
- **VP of Technology at WebEvents Global** (Oct 2008 - Oct 2010)
  I am very excited to be part of the WebEvents Global.
  
  I am the VP of Technology, and overseeing our entire technology platform and technology product development.
  
  We have just completed migrating our entire platform into the clouds so that we can better scale and meet our clients needs.
  
  Currently we are reworking our entire core technology to better meet the future of event and conference planning and marketing.
  
  We are making all of our tools accessible through popular social networking and social media platform.
  
  Look for more updates on what we are doing at WebEvents Global.
- **Owner - Social Media Strategist at Social Media Squad** (Feb 2007 - Sep 2008)
  Social Media Squad is my own side project to give me some focus and direction in learning more about real life application of social media in business.
  
  Through my experience in online marketing, web application design and just my general interest in everything 2.0 I started the Social Media Squad to help give me a framework to evaluate applications, methodologies and coordinate with other businesses in the Social Media Space.
- **Social Media Strategist at Altrec.com** (Feb 2008 - Aug 2008)
  I have been the social media strategist for Altrec / Great Outdoors.
  
  I am still contracting with the company to help take Great Outdoors and their partners into the social media space.
- **Owner at Original Web Solutions** (Dec 1999 - May 2008)
  Original Web Solutions is my web development company I started with my wife Isbhel Lane.
  
  We focus on web application and content management driven web sites for small businesses and non-profits.
- **Lead Web Application Developer at Palo Alto Software** (Sep 2005 - Feb 2008)
  I was the lead web application developer for Palo Alto Software.
  
  I lead the technical development for the internal web-based administration system as well as its integration with the public web sites www.paloalto.com and www.bplans.com as well as the UK counterparts.
- **Lead Developer at IDX Broker** (Jun 2004 - Dec 2004)
  I was lead developer for IDX Broker.
  
  It was a partnership between Chad Barczak, Jeff Kast and I to deliver inventory and real estate web site solutions.
  
  The web sites utilize Multiple Listing Service (MLS) real estate data from across the country and would provide it an a search engine optimized web site format that could easily be integrated into the customers web site.
  
  I built all the systems that extracted the data from the MLS and the mechanisms for distributing to agent or brokers web sites.
  
  I also recently have built 50 state real estate portals for IDX Broker showcasing agent / brokers nationwide.
  
  The Real Estate for Sale in Network.
- **Lead Developer at MLS Inc.** (2003 - 2004)
  Managed the development team for Vihn.net and My Little Salesman.
- **Lead Web Developer at NetCorps** (1998 - 2000)
  Managed the development team at Netcorps.

## Publications

- Speaker: API Strategy and Practice — http://www.apistrategyconference.com/2013NYC/about.php (Feb 2013) http://www.apistrategyconference.com/2013NYC/about.php
- Business of APIs — Tech Gypsiess LLC (Apr 2011) http://www.amazon.com/Business-APIs-Kin-Lane/dp/1461113881

## Skills

### Technical
- AJAX
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Cloud Computing
- CSS
- Databases
- Distributed Systems
- HTML 5
- HTML5
- Integration
- JSON
- MySQL
- PHP
- Python
- Representational State Transfer (REST)
- REST
- Ruby
- XML
### Business
- Online Marketing
- SaaS
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
### Other
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- API
- APIs
- Application Programming Interfaces
- ColdFusion
- Enterprise Software
- Web Applications