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MessyAPI is a production-ready developer infrastructure platform I built to eliminate repetitive data utility work. It gives developers one API to clean, validate, match, transform, protect, and analyze messy data instead of rebuilding those capabilities for every application.
I designed the platform around real production requirements, including API-key authentication, tenant isolation, usage metering, rate limiting, idempotency, asynchronous jobs, retries, webhooks, observability, and secure data handling.
MessyAPI also includes JavaScript and Python SDKs, OpenAPI, MCP support, CLI tooling, RapidAPI integration, interactive testing, and composable workflows for chaining multiple data operations together.
The goal was simple: turn common data infrastructure developers repeatedly build themselves into one reliable API.
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Built MessAPI, a production-ready data processing API designed to clean, validate, normalize, deduplicate, match, transform, and analyze messy data through one API. I designed the product architecture, API experience, authentication, usage metering, reliability systems, documentation, and developer workflows across REST, JavaScript, Python, and MCP — taking the product from concept through production deployment.
Switching a client site to automatic production deploys is rarely a decision anyone made. It was the platform default, left on, then defended later as philosophy.
What it saves is a click and the awkward message asking a client to open the preview URL again. Both land on the developer. What it costs is the publish decision, handed to whoever merges next, with whatever the branch holds.
On a product team that's fine. On client work the merger owns the code and the client owns the brand.
Every host ships the fix. Netlify locks the published deploy. Vercel stages the push once you turn off auto-assigned production domains. Actions uses environment protection rules when the approver shouldn't be the author.
If your live deploy turned out to be wrong right now, could you name the deploy ID you'd roll back to?
https://www.duskolicanin.com/blog/manual-production-deploy-client-websites
I've never made an ad like this and I'm really proud of it! It's for Cosign, an app I designed that helps users understand and manage terms and agentic permissions.
Digital consent, basically.
Every frame rendered in Blender on my M1 Max, which took a while.
Figma x Opus 5.5 x Blender
