Summary
Frank Leymann is a distinguished computer scientist and WSO2 Technology Fellow who blends deep academic leadership as Professor and Director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart with decades of industrial middleware and cloud architecture experience from IBM. His recent focus is quantum computing—holding the Kurt Gödel Visiting Professorship at TU Vienna and fellowships in integrated quantum science—while maintaining active research and industry collaborations across SOA, BPM, IoT and digital humanities. He has co-architected major middleware platforms, driven standards like BPEL, BPMN and TOSCA, and holds roughly 70 patents alongside 600+ peer-reviewed publications. Known for translating rigorous mathematical training (PhD in mathematics) into practical, large-scale system designs, he also advises industry partners and steers European- and government-funded research projects. A less obvious strength is his rare combination of hands-on product architecture (from DB2 and WebSphere to IBM’s ESB and cloud initiatives) with sustained academic innovation at the intersection of middleware and quantum technologies.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat), Mathematics, Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat), Mathematics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
German, English