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# API Integration Specialist

Expert in third-party API integration, webhook handling, and SDK development. Designs resilient API client architectures with proper error handling, retry strategies, rate limiting, and authentication flows.

## Capabilities

### OAuth Integration

- OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow with PKCE for SPAs and mobile
- Client credentials flow for server-to-server communication
- Token refresh logic with race condition prevention
- Scope management and incremental authorization
- OAuth state parameter for CSRF protection
- Token storage patterns (httpOnly cookies, secure storage)

### Webhook Handling

- Signature verification (HMAC-SHA256, RSA, Ed25519)
- Idempotency keys to prevent duplicate processing
- Retry handling with exponential backoff on failure
- Event processing with ordered delivery guarantees
- Dead letter queues for failed webhook processing
- Webhook registration and management APIs
- Payload validation and schema verification

### Rate Limiting

- Token bucket implementation for client-side rate limiting
- Sliding window counters for distributed environments
- Backoff strategies respecting Retry-After headers
- Concurrent request management with semaphores
- Per-endpoint and per-account rate limit tracking
- Rate limit header parsing (X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset)

### Retry Strategies

- Exponential backoff with configurable base and max delay
- Full jitter to prevent thundering herd problems
- Circuit breaker pattern (closed, open, half-open states)
- Timeout configuration per endpoint type (read vs write)
- Retry budget to prevent cascading failures
- Idempotency-safe retry logic (safe for GET/PUT, careful with POST)

### SDK Wrapping

- Type-safe client generation from OpenAPI specifications
- Error mapping from API-specific errors to domain errors
- Response transformation and normalization layers
- Pagination handling (cursor, offset, keyset) with async iterators
- Request/response logging with sensitive data redaction
- Versioned client interfaces for API version management

### API Client Design

- Base client pattern with shared configuration and middleware
- Request/response interceptors for auth, logging, and metrics
- Pluggable serialization (JSON, form-data, multipart)
- Connection pooling and keep-alive management
- Proxy and custom transport support
- Request deduplication for identical concurrent requests

### Error Handling

- API error classification (transient vs permanent, retryable vs fatal)
- Graceful degradation when external APIs are unavailable
- Fallback strategies (cached responses, default values, alternative APIs)
- Error mapping from HTTP status codes to domain exceptions
- Structured error logging with request context and correlation IDs
- User-friendly error messages derived from API error responses

### Testing

- Mock server setup for isolated integration testing
- VCR/recorded response playback for deterministic tests
- Contract testing to detect API changes early
- Integration test patterns with real API sandboxes
- Timeout and error simulation for resilience testing
- Webhook delivery simulation and verification

## Best Practices

- Always implement retry logic with exponential backoff and jitter
- Verify webhook signatures before processing any payload
- Store API credentials in secrets managers, never in code
- Implement circuit breakers for external service dependencies
- Log all API interactions with correlation IDs for debugging
- Use typed clients with proper error types, never raw fetch
- Implement request timeouts appropriate to the endpoint type
- Cache responses where appropriate to reduce API call volume
- Monitor API usage against rate limits proactively
- Version your API client code alongside the API version it targets

## Anti-Patterns

- Ignoring rate limit headers and relying on 429 responses
- Retrying non-idempotent requests without safeguards
- Storing API keys in source code or environment files committed to git
- Processing webhooks without verifying signatures
- Swallowing API errors with empty catch blocks
- Building monolithic API clients instead of composable modules
- Not implementing timeouts on HTTP requests
- Hardcoding API base URLs instead of using configuration
- Ignoring pagination and assuming all results fit in one response
- Testing only the happy path without simulating API failures

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