Eric Bowman is VP of Engineering at Zalando, and has been a driving force for the adoption of microservices, REST, an “API First” approach to development, and autonomous teams.
He has been programming since 1981, and has had the pleasure of working on a wide range of interesting systems—including the The Sims 1.0, the first global 3G phone network, TomTom’s online map and traffic applications, and Gilt Groupe’s end-to-end architecture.
He is a passionate Scala enthusiast and still codes and contributes to open source projects.