One spec. No more fragmented toolchain.
Elena Marchetti founded Apistaq in 2025 after rebuilding the same SDK generation pipeline for the third time in her career — once at a payments infrastructure company, twice more at developer tool startups. The pattern was always the same: OpenAPI spec in one repo, rate-limit config in the gateway, SDK scripts in a cron job nobody trusted, and docs three months behind the actual API. Apistaq is the control plane that should have existed already.
Elena Marchetti
Elena spent eight years building API infrastructure at payments companies in New York — most recently as Head of API Platform at a growing fintech, where her team maintained SDK codegen pipelines in four languages for hundreds of external developers. Changelog drift, broken backward compatibility, and hand-rolled rate-limit configs that nobody kept in sync with the spec were weekly problems. She started Apistaq in 2025 to replace that patchwork with a single spec-driven control plane.
Elena holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Cornell University and writes about API governance and developer experience on the Apistaq blog. Reach her directly at [email protected].
Scope by design, not omission.
Apistaq is not an API gateway. It does not proxy traffic, terminate TLS, or sit in the request path. It reads your OpenAPI spec and produces governance artifacts — versioning metadata, rate-limit policy configs, SDKs, and portal docs. Your gateway (Kong, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, or anything else) continues to handle actual traffic; Apistaq tells it what policies to enforce.
Apistaq is not a CI/CD pipeline. It does not replace GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or your deployment scripts. It is a webhook consumer: your spec changes trigger Apistaq, and Apistaq produces artifacts your existing pipeline can deploy.
Apistaq is not a runtime monitoring tool. It does not collect latency metrics, error rates, or distributed traces. If you need observability, pair it with Datadog, Grafana, or whatever your team already runs.
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