As CTO of a rapid growth FinTech one of my biggest challenges is rebuilding the platform to scale elastically plus still allowing for the rapid development and integration of core platform functionality. Even for fast prototyping and design Openresty allows for the quick integration for mobile and web services that can integrate with almost any database or stateless program logic allowing for faster than normal deployment and event geo based load balancing. Utilising NGINX ill show some of the ways i am overcoming some of the challenges by building a developer focused api platform that will allow the quick and easy deployment of new services while still maintaining the functionality needed by modern REST API design techniques. Also we will be looking at some of the additional functionality available to the Openresty suite including Machine Learning (which can be used for API error handling), QR code handling and API tempting and authentication. http://au.apidays.io/abstracts.html#2747a1f1