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API Evangelist Conversation with Dave Shanley of Princess Beef Heavy Industries

with Dave Shanley , Product Executive at Princess Beef Heavy Industries
January 28, 2025

I have been wanting to sit down with Dave for a while now, but I needed to spend more time with Vaccuum to understand where it would fit into my world of API governance. I did that, and then finally got to sit down with Dave Shanley of Princess Beef Heavy Industries, and creator of Vacuum, OpenAPI Doctor, and other important OpenAPI tooling. I finally got the full background of why he felt Spectral was falling short when it came to linting our API specifications, and it was much more than just about speed. I left our conversation with a head full of ideas and a bunch of notes on what is next for API governance and rules, and need to have Dave back talk about OpenAPI Doctor, libopenapi, and his other great work.

Dave Shanley
Dave Shanley
Product Executive at Princess Beef Heavy Industries

As a creative engineer, experience architect, technical leader, inventor, software architect, and entrepreneur, I have over 28 years of experience turning ideas and concepts into products. I've worked in various industries, including advertising, branding, enterprise data, analytics, security, virtualization, and consumer-focused start-ups and tech giants.