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Key researcher on Web APIs and GraphQL within the Cloud Computing department: leading teams of researchers and software engineers, setting technical directions, and communicating goals, results, and broader technology trends to upper management – in addition to hands-on research and engineering work. Specific projects & accomplishments include:• R&D of GraphQL API management facilities, on path to be adopted in IBM API Connect. Resulting in my selection as technical representative of… Show more Key researcher on Web APIs and GraphQL within the Cloud Computing department: leading teams of researchers and software engineers, setting technical directions, and communicating goals, results, and broader technology trends to upper management – in addition to hands-on research and engineering work. Specific projects & accomplishments include:• R&D of GraphQL API management facilities, on path to be adopted in IBM API Connect. Resulting in my selection as technical representative of IBM in the GraphQL Foundation.• R&D of OpenAPI-to-GraphQL, an open-sourced library for migrating APIs to GraphQL. Includes overseeing related open-source process (testing automation, release management, customer support).• Conceptualization, implementation, and continuous operation of API Harmony, an API catalog in the IBM Cloud, which relies on mining Web APIs and their use in open-source projects.Apart from product adoption, my work has resulted in over 20 patents for IBM, and multiple publications in top international conferences and journals. Show less

Research and teaching in Cloud Computing and Software Engineering, including representation of the research group in EU multi-partner/industry-research consortium, contributions to research proposals, and supervision of master and bachelor theses.I conceptualized a new modeling approach to assess software service variants, and developed tools for it. The approach was applied in the collaborative design of public services.

Research on “Scalable Service Ecosystems“, resulting in scientific paper and 4 patents, and laying the intellectual and technical groundwork for the later creation of API Harmony.

Working on group-strategic projects “Marketing & Communication and Realignment of Business Management“ and “Global Banking Know Your Customer“.

Development of technical tests for RFID system; conceptualization of an dynamic Content Management System.