Lorna Mitchell, OpenAPI Specification Maintainer with the OpenAPI Initiative, and overall API experience expert came by to educate me (us) on OpenAPI Overlays, helping contrast with the core OpenAPI spec, as well as with Arazzo Workflows, sharing how it will help bring more stakeholders into the API lifecycle and contribute to better API experiences. Lorna is a well spring of knowledge when it comes to OpenAPI, but also other specifications, as well as Spectral and other approaches to governing APIs, and she'll be coming back shortly to help educate us all about the intersection of overlays with extensions and how it all will change API experience.
API Evangelist Conversation with Lorna Mitchell, OpenAPI Specification Maintainer with the OpenAPI Initiative
with
Lorna Mitchell
, OpenAPI Specification Maintainer
at OpenAPI Initiative (OAI)
December 5, 2024
Lorna Mitchell
OpenAPI Specification Maintainer at OpenAPI Initiative (OAI)
I help teams with their technical, open source, and API work. After many years experience software engineer and open source project maintainer, I'm now a technical leader and strategist in the developer tools space. I'm a top-class technical communicator, experienced conference speaker and published author. I'm on OpenAPI's Technical Steering Committee and OpenUK's board of directors. Most of all, I'm a glue person. I love to join dots, collaborate with and enable others to succeed. I show up, I work hard, and I like to make things happen (good things!).