About ZIO

ZIO    

Olaf Zimmermann (ZIO)1 is an independent consulting IT architect and former professor at the Institute for Software at OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences. His areas of interest include API design, architectural decision management, collaborative modeling, domain-driven design and microservices. As a software architect and a industrial researcher at ABB and IBM, he provided design, implementation and integration services to clients in multiple industries. 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 co-authored the book “Patterns for API Design” (Addison Wesley, 2022). He was awarded a Best Publication Award at OST and an IEEE Software Best Presentation New Directions Award at SEI SATURN. Olaf is a co-editor of the “Dear Researchers” column in JSS that sends messages from industry to research, he co-edited IEEE Software practitioner column “Insights” before. He created the method collections Design Practice Repository (DPR) and Ethical Software Engineering and is a maintainer of Markdown Architectural Decision Records (MADR).

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Contact Information

Please contact me if you would like to discuss any of the topics in my areas of interest and experience:

  • {consulting or mentoring or research} at ozimmer d o t ch

More Information

The Projects and Services page and my blog provide information about my focus areas, including pointers to open source projects. You can also find me on:

Selected presentation PDFs and articles for industry and academia can be found here and here. This is the RSS feed for the blog.

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Past professional lives:

Notes

  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. 😉 ↩