About ZIO

ZIO    

Olaf Zimmermann (ZIO)1 is a professor and consulting IT architect at the Institute for Software at OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland. His areas of interest include API design and management, domain-driven design and (micro-)services on solution, portfolio and enterprise level. As an industrial researcher and software architect at ABB and IBM, he provided design, implementation and integration services to clients in multiple industries before. He also developed and taught middleware and tools for systems and network management. Olaf is a certified The Open Group Distinguished (Chief/Lead) IT Architect and a member of Hillside Europe. Olaf is an author of the books “Patterns for API Design” (Addison Wesley, 2022) and “Perspectives on Web Services” (Springer, 2003) as well as the first Redbook on Eclipse and Web services (IBM, 2001). He was awarded the first Best Publication Award at OST (2023/2024) and the first IEEE Software Best Presentation New Directions Award at SEI SATURN 2010. He is a co-editor of the Insights column in IEEE Software. He created the open-source method collections Design Practice Repository (DPR) and Ethical Software Engineering.

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  1. ZIO was my short name at HSR (now OST). ZIO also is Italian for “uncle” (“Onkel” in German). And some uncles tend to tell stories ;-) ↩