Jeffrey Stylos
Senior API Architect at SAS
Millers Falls, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Stylos is a Senior API Architect with 11 years of experience blending Human-Computer Interaction and software engineering to elevate developer experience and API usability. He led API design and governance for IBM Watson services and has hands-on open-source contributions to well-known SDKs for Watson in both Python and Node.js, improving authentication, examples, and dataset tooling. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon focused on API usability, he couples research-driven insight with practical engineering at scale, now shaping APIs at SAS. An avid long-distance hiker who has completed the hiking triple crown and multiple thru-hikes, he brings the endurance and systems-thinking of the trail to complex developer ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Berkshire Community College
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Github Skills (25)
watson10
api-rest10
javascript10
python10
api-design10
apidoc10
restful-api10
api10
ibm-watson10
rest-api10
nodejs10
lib9
authentication9
user-authentication9
nlp6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
Oct 2015 - Oct 2020
:snake: Client library to use the IBM Watson services in Python and available in pip as watson-developer-cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 337 commits, 63 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeffrey's commits focused on updating the authorization service and implementing example authentication, which involved modifying Python files related to the authorization and service aspects. They also worked on improving example code across different service examples. A version bump for the Python SDK and initial Alchemy API support were also included.
pythonpipclient-librarysnakewatson-developer-cloud
watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
Dec 2014 - Feb 2017
:comet: Node.js library to access IBM Watson services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed by modifying example code and adding a method for listing datasets. They updated multiple example files across various Watson services (concept expansion, insights, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, visual recognition, and tradeoff analytics) to fix typos and update references to the non-alpha wrapper. Furthermore, the user added optional cookie support to the library's core and also updated the ToneAnalyzer with optional parameters.
cometvisual-recognitionwatsonjavascriptpersonality-insights
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