Zane Lyon
Sr. Product Manager, APIs & Integration
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZane Lyon is a senior product leader specializing in APIs, integrations, and developer platforms with 11+ years focused on marrying product discipline with deep technical empathy. He has led platform and ecosystem strategy at companies from Zapier—where he owned the developer SDK and third-party integration growth—to enterprise roles shaping carrier and location-based services, and now heads APIs & Integration at WEX. Comfortable in scrappy startups and fast-moving large orgs, he excels at pragmatic, creative approaches that accelerate onboarding, developer productivity, and measurable business outcomes. His hands-on contributions to notable open-source work like the zapier-platform demonstrate practical API integration chops—implementing GitHub triggers, refactors, and robust error handling. Known for guiding teams through complex launches, he combines systems-level architecture experience with a product-first mindset that speeds shipping without sacrificing reliability. Based in Austin, he often bridges technical and commercial stakeholders to turn ecosystem opportunities into delivered value.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BBA MIS, BBA MIS at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (8)
apim10
zapier10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
github-api10
api-design10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zapier/zapier-platform
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
The SDK for you to build an integration on Zapier
Role in this project:
API Developer / Integration Engineer
API Developer / Integration EngineerContributions:13 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zane's commits primarily focus on developing and integrating with the GitHub API within the Zapier platform. They created and modified triggers and creates (actions) to interact with GitHub issues, demonstrating a clear understanding of API interactions and data transformations. The commits involved refactoring code, adding sample data, and implementing error handling to improve the integration's functionality and robustness. Furthermore, they added test configurations to trigger integration functionality.
nodejszapiersdkcli
ZaneLyon/zapdocs-docusaurus
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 11 months
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