About

  I’m Jason Harmon, CTO @Stoplight.io, former Sr Director of Platform Architecture at Expedia Group, CPlatformO & CTO @Typeform, Head of API Design @Paypal, and API Architect @uShip. I worked in software in Austin/Central Texas for almost 20 years, before moving to Barcelona in 2016, and back to Austin in 2019. I’ve worked for a wide variety of companies, from the smallest startups (Stoplight.io is my 6th), to the biggest companies in the tech industry (Expedia Group, PayPal, AT&T, Razorfish/Dell). My passion for the last few years has been to focus on organizational transformations built around microservice architectures and public/partner developer programs.

I initially made a career in .NET (actually just ASP at first ;) ), but I’ve done some time in Java as well. On the side I’ve always worked on side projects in a wide variety of languages and tools, such as PHP and Python. I’ve developed a mobile application in Android/Java called BookSwap, which carved out a decent spot in the niche world of paperback book trading.

That tips the hat to my reading tendencies. I enjoy reading lots of old scifi, spy history & biographies, and topical looks at anything physics or space related. I listen mostly to audio books via Audible these days, although the e-reader gets a workout on occasion.