Getting To Know Kevin Swiber For The API Craft 2014 Detroit Hypermedia Panel

I'm preparing for my hypermedia panel with Mike Amundsen (@mamund), Mike Kelly (@mikekelly85), Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik), Kevin Swiber (@kevinswiber), Jørn Wildt (@JornWildt), and Markus Lanthaler (@MarkusLanthaler), at API Craft Detroit next week. I wanted to go into the panel with a snapshot, and at least a minimal understanding of each of the panelists. This is kind of an all-star panel of hypermedia experts, so I need to at least bump up my understanding of what they are contributing to the API space, and who they are, beyond what I know from my own interactions with these API leaders.

As I do with all of my research, I wanted to share my work with you, my reader. Next up is Kevin Swiber. Kevin is one of the architects behind leading API provider Apigee, and has a great deal of experiencing in designing enterprise grade web APIs, contributing his own Siren format, as well as a wealth of white papers, books, and being a part of the API Craft movement.

Here is the outline of my research into Kevin's work:

Kevin Swiber

Open Source rebel. Enterprise survivor. Passionate technologist. Current projects: Siren Hypermedia Specification, Argo HTTP Server.

Title: Senior Product Architect & API Design Consultant
Mission: I like building things for APIs. Life is good. 

  • Twitter - https://twitter.com/kevinswiber
  • Github - https://github.com/kevinswiber
  • Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/users/119378/kevin-swiber

Siren

A hypermedia specification for representing entities.

Links:

Conversation:

Stories:


Kevin produces some amazing content as part of is role at Apigee, and is responsible for many of the important conversations around APIs going on across the web, like API Craft forum, local meetups, and even this event in Detroit, by the same name.

Presentations:

  • Confreaks - http://www.confreaks.com/presenters/1347-kevin-swiber

Conversations:

  • Apigee - https://community.apigee.com/users/kevin-swiber

Books:

  • API Design: Third Edition - http://apigee.com/about/api-best-practices/api-design-third-edition

Events:

  • API-Craft - http://api-craft.org/

I'm not posting all of this information just so I can share my research, it is also because Kevin has a wealth of experience to contribute, and I want to better understand the role he plays, while also helping you understand along the way. While I learned a lot through this process, I will also use it as a reference for my panel at API Craft, and for other stories I write in the future.

I've already added Siren as a tools in my hypermedia API research. I could spend days going through this research, but I also have 2 ther hypermedia API experts to profile, so I'm going to move on to the others, and come back to my profile of Kevin in the future to continue my own hypermedia education.