API Consulting • Strategy • Architecture • Governance

API consulting that fixes your integration problems at the source.

Most API problems aren't code problems—they're strategy and architecture problems. Taliferro provides API consulting services that align your API design, governance, and security with how your business actually operates.

API strategy
Apigee expertise
Governance frameworks
Enterprise API security
ConsistentAPI contracts
Fewer integration failures across teams.
Secureby design
Auth and governance built in, not bolted on.
Scalablearchitecture
APIs that survive team growth and product change.

Is your API program struggling?

  • Integrations break after routine changes?
  • No consistent standards across services?
  • Security feels like an afterthought?
  • Teams can't agree on API design patterns?
  • Apigee not delivering expected value?
What we do

API consulting services we provide

We work at the strategy, architecture, and implementation level—wherever the breakdown is happening.

API Strategy & Roadmap

We audit your current API landscape, identify gaps in consistency and governance, and define a clear roadmap for where your API program needs to go.

API Architecture Consulting

Designing REST, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs that are consistent, versioned correctly, and built to survive change without breaking consumers.

Apigee Implementation

Deep Apigee Edge and Apigee X expertise—including policy design, traffic management, developer portals, and Edge-to-X migration planning.

API Governance

Standards, review processes, and tooling that keep APIs consistent as your organization scales. We build frameworks your teams will actually use.

API Security Assessment

We identify authentication and authorization gaps, input validation failures, and policy inconsistencies—then define a remediation plan that holds up.

Enterprise API Integration

Connecting systems that were never designed to talk to each other. We design integration contracts that reduce coupling and survive vendor changes.

Why API consulting matters

Most API problems are invisible until they're expensive.

APIs that were designed informally—without consistent contracts, governance, or security standards—become a drag on every team that touches them. The cost compounds: slower delivery, more integration bugs, harder security audits, and brittle systems that are expensive to change.

  • Inconsistent naming and schemas — the same concept means different things in different services.
  • No versioning strategy — breaking changes appear without notice.
  • Security gaps — auth bolted on after the fact, scopes that don't match business rules.
  • No governance — every team does it differently and nobody agrees why.

Who we work with

  • CTOs and engineering leaders managing large API surfaces
  • Platform teams building internal API programs
  • Enterprise teams running Apigee or evaluating API gateways
  • Startups scaling their API architecture before it breaks
  • Organizations preparing for API security audits or compliance reviews
Common questions

API consulting questions we hear often

What does API consulting include?

Strategy, architecture design, Apigee implementation, governance framework setup, security assessment, and integration planning. We work from high-level roadmaps down to implementation review.

Do you work with Apigee?

Yes. Deep experience with Apigee Edge and Apigee X—policy design, traffic management, developer portals, and Edge-to-X migration.

How do you approach enterprise API strategy?

We audit your current API landscape, identify where governance breaks down, and define a strategy that works at your organization's scale—not a generic framework.

What is API governance and why does it matter?

API governance is the set of standards and processes that keep APIs consistent, secure, and maintainable as teams grow. Without it, every team ships APIs differently and the integration cost compounds.

Can you help us improve API security?

Yes. We assess your authentication and authorization design, find gaps in input validation and rate limiting, and build governance policies that keep security consistent across services.

Do you work with Seattle-based companies only?

No. We're based in Seattle but work remotely with clients across the US. Most API consulting engagements are fully remote.

Ready to fix your API program?

Whether you need a strategy review, Apigee help, or a full governance framework—we can help. Let's start with a conversation.