Dr. John Erik Wittern

Professional experience

Bootstrapped Coup to become profitable company of 13, securing over €100 Mio in public funding for hundreds of start- and scale-ups
Head of the product & tech team, responsible for the design, development, and operation of Coup's SaaS platform

Technical lead in a global team, productizing my prior research on GraphQL API gateways into IBM’s DataPower/API Connect

Globally key researcher and technical lead for web APIs and GraphQL as part of the Hybrid Cloud department
Dissemination of work in scientific publications, IBM products, patents, and open-source

"Dr.-Ing." (magna cum laude) for work on "Modeling and Selection of Software Service Variants"
At the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Tai

erikwittern@gmail.com

+49 176 20 18 5661

Hamburg, Germany

wittern.net

Technical representative of IBM and founding member of the GraphQL Foundation from March 2019 to October 2020
Author of 25 scientific, peer-reviewed papers (>1500 citations; H-index 21) and book "Cloud Service Benchmarking" (published by Springer)
Over 25 talks at international scientific & developer conferences
Creator of open-source packages openapi-to-graphql (1.6 GH stars) and graphql-query-generator (340 GH stars)
Co-organizer, program committee member, and steering committee member of multiple international scientific conferences