Lenny Urbanowski

Architected and executed the creation of a scalable digital ordering platform which included a hybrid native Android, iOS, web mobile app, consumer web ordering experience, merchant management web portal, a native Android, iOS, Flutter app for merchants to accept orders and manage inventory, and the data model, back end, cloud infrastructure to support it all.

I spearheaded a project to totally overhaul the pre-existing Power BI custom visualization API. The existing implementation was an internal API that was exposed to the public and, as such, it was prone to unexpected breaking changes. There was an existing community of developers who mostly loved the product, but it had developed a fairly negative view of the development experience and stability of the API.

I designed a new API from the ground up that was more suitable for 3rd-party developers. Throughout the design process, I had to get buy-in from internal and external stakeholders.

After the API was designed, I had to create a versioning system to protect against future breaking changes, and an adapter to allow visuals created with the new API to sit on top of the existing product alongside those created with the old API.

Finally, I designed and created a set of developer tools to make the process of creating new custom visualizations easy. The end result allowed new developers to go from zero to a working “hello world” visual running live in Power BI within just a couple of minutes.