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Integrations & Automation

Your web app rarely lives alone. I connect it to the rest of your stack with secure, signed webhooks and clean APIs — syncing data, triggering downstream actions, and automating the manual steps that eat your time. The same eventing patterns I use to keep multi-service platforms in sync.

“My tools don’t talk to each other, so I’m constantly copying data between them.”

What's included

  • Secure, signed outbound webhooks
  • Clean REST APIs & machine access keys
  • Two-way sync between systems
  • Automated downstream actions
  • Guardrails against misfires (SSRF, retries, logging)

Where I've shipped it

Real client work that put this capability to use.

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