Erik Wittern is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. In recent years, Erik’s research evolved around web APIs, specifically their consumption from a software engineering perspective. For IBM, he built the API Harmony catalog and currently focuses on new web API paradigms like GraphQL, micro-service architectures, and serverless computing. Erik is co-author of a book on benchmarking cloud services and has written numerous research papers and patents. He holds a PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. You can learn more about Erik’s work at http://wittern.net, http://www.apiful.io, or on Twitter @erikwittern.