Talk
Building an Agentic Connector Factory: API Integrations in Production
Asking an LLM to "read the API docs and generate a connector" sounds easy, until you try to put it in production. At Airbyte, we maintain over 600 API connectors, including a growing set optimized for AI agents. We've built an agentic pipeline to supercharge how we build and maintain integrations, but getting it to work meant learning why the naive approach fails. This talk covers the patterns that actually make it work: phased discovery that builds understanding before generation, self-testing against live APIs, readiness checks that gate completion, and golden question validation, where we test whether the resulting connector is actually useful.
About
Pedro Lopez is a Software Engineer at Airbyte, the open-source data integration platform. Previously, he was an early engineer at Grouparoo, an open-source customer data sync framework later acquired by Airbyte. He is known for his work on data integration, reverse ETL, and building connectors that help companies sync data across their tech stack. Beyond data infrastructure, he is the creator of whatsapp-web.js, a popular open-source WhatsApp client library for Node.js with over 20,000 GitHub stars, and a passionate tinkerer focused on reverse engineering and automation.