Vincenzo Chianese
API Architect at Microsoft
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolVincenzo Chianese is a senior software engineer and API architect with 15+ years of experience designing and scaling developer platforms, currently building Developer AI at Stripe. He architected Microsoft Graph APIs serving 100M+ users, authored API design standards used by 200+ teams, and led automation for OpenAPI generation across service fleets. Vincenzo has a strong track record in OpenAPI tooling and developer experience—driving Prism, Spectral, and Stoplight Elements improvements—and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like DefinitelyTyped and Express Gateway. He combines systems-level thinking (Clojure, C#, TypeScript) with hands-on platform work—reducing build times from hours to minutes at Microsoft and productionizing marketplaces at SentinelOne. Based in Denver, he blends deep API design expertise with practical engineering leadership and a knack for tooling that accelerates other teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingegneria informatica, Ingegneria, 92, Ingegneria informatica, Ingegneria, 92 at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
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Github Skills (49)
apim10
json10
typesc10
javascript10
expressjs10
json-schema10
apidoc10
api-design10
typescript10
swagger10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
integrations10
cicd10
mock-server10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ExpressGateway/express-gateway
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
A microservices API Gateway built on top of Express.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 950 commits, 373 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vincenzo's commits primarily involved replacing the `node-uuid` library with the more modern `uuid` library across several service files, including user.service.js, credential.service.js, and application.service.js. The code changes reflect the refactoring of codebase to use the UUIDv4 standard for generating unique identifiers within the API Gateway. Additionally, the user added and modified type definition files, including index.d.ts, and plugin.d.ts, defining types for various components such as policies, conditions, and routes within the Express Gateway framework.
api-gatewayexpressendpointsoauth2-serverservice-discovery
stoplightio/prism
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Turn any OpenAPI2/3 and Postman Collection file into an API server with mocking, transformations and validations.
Role in this project:Back-end & API Developer
Back-end & API DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 660 commits, 896 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Vincenzo primarily focused on enhancing and refining the functionality of the `prism` API server. They implemented several features, including allowing the forwarder to work without a resource and making adjustments to the routing logic. Additionally, they addressed bug fixes related to code requirements and implemented a better test suite for the router. The user also performed refactoring and added new tests, indicating a focus on maintaining and improving the project's core functionality.
oasxapiapi-testingpostman-collectionmocking
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