Ted Epstein
Founder And CEO at Open API Initiative
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorTed Epstein is a founder and CEO with 12+ years leading API and enterprise architecture innovation, currently building RepreZen’s product and open-source portfolio to simplify and standardize API design. He’s the lead architect of RAPID-ML, an open IDL that brings collaborative data modeling to REST APIs, and serves on the OpenAPI Initiative governing board shaping the industry standard. Ted blends domain-driven modeling, Eclipse-based DSL engineering, and practical microservice and integration architecture to accelerate API lifecycles and governance. He co-organized API-Craft NYC and is a frequent conference speaker, demonstrating a knack for translating formal modeling ideas into developer-friendly tooling and business-ready products. Notably, his work bridges legacy SOAP/RPC patterns and modern hypermedia/REST approaches, enabling enterprise teams to modernize interfaces without losing proven integration practices.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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swagger
top-1%
dictionary
top-5%
hash
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swagger-ui
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openapi
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json
top-5%
Github Skills (119)
parser10
api-client10
swagger10
oas10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
rest-api10
eclipse10
openapi10
openapi-documentation10
validation10
refer10
swagger-ui10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RepreZen/Semoasa
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Specification Extension Metadata for OAS Annotations (Semoasa) is a machine-readable format for extensions to Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0 specifications.
Contributions:37 commits, 8 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 months
openapiswaggerextensibilityvendor-extensionsspecification-extensions
ModelSolv/Kaboom
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:45 commits in 19 days
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