Jerome Louvel is the CTO & Founder of Restlet and an expert in web APIs and REST. He is an engineer in computer science and management, graduate of Polytech'Montpellier (France) and started the open source Restlet Framework project back in 2005, as the first REST API framework for Java. He was part of the JCP experts group who defined the JAX-RS API and has co-authored the 'Restlet in Action' book (Manning) and contributed to the 'RESTful Web Services' book (O'Reilly). More recently, he has created Restlet Platform, a full stack API PaaS including Restlet Studio, a web IDE for APIs and Restlet Client, a visual REST client and API testing tool. He lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two daughters