I worked with Brett for several years. He was a contributor to AT&T’s API platform and standards. Furthermore, we’d often consult with one another when confronted with difficult API problems.

Brett is an API expert. He’s worked on a large number of API projects that span wide variety of domains. Few people have the breadth and depth of API experience as Brett.

Beyond, his technical skills, Brett is the kind of person that people look to as a leader due to his strong oral and written communication skills and his natural ability to empathize with others. Moreover, you can count on Brett to deliver on his commitments.

I’ve had the pleasure of managing Brett Schwarz for the past 3 years. Brett is passionate about good, clean, simple API Design and adherence to standards. He regularly demonstrates his mastery of technical tools and methodologies when providing recommendations to both project and tool enhancement initiatives. He is recognized as the lead subject matter expert at AT&T on the REST protocol, responsible for approving all new API designs, writing technical blogs, as well as creating training and development tools. Brett understands that technology changes fast and he works hard to keep his skillset up to date. Brett would be a significant asset to any team looking to leverage or deploy API’s in their architectural designs.

I have worked with Brett for the past 7-8 years, and he has always gone above and beyond what he was asked to do. He always strives to improve products, services, and processes. He has great attention to detail and does the job the right way. He is very personable and a pleasure to work with.

I have come across many people who claim themselves to be an expert in REST API Design and Architecture but many of them are not even close to be an expert in it. But I can say with utmost confidence that BRETT is an TRUE expert in REST API Design and Architecture and a GURU in it. I have not come across anybody who is better than him in it in the industry till now. He is an pioneer in it working alongside with me as a co-lead in the North Bound REST API architecture for an REST API based gateway.

It has been a pleasure working with Brett for many reasons.

He is a knowledgeable developer, very experienced in API design, documentation, construction and testing. Brett has provided consultation to numerous teams at AT&T in all these areas. Brett is very approachable, friendly and helpful. You can count on Brett to deliver on his commitments.

Brett grasps the latest trends and technologies in the field, pursuing them of his out initiative. He has shared his knowledge and taught others the best practices he has acquired.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the 5+ years I worked with Brett and would work with him again if the opportunity presented itself.

Brett worked on my team for many years, and was a key leader in pushing forward good API design. Brett has outstanding skills as both a coder and an architect that can understand business use cases, data models, and how to design highly reusable APIs. On top of that, however, Brett did incredible work on his own initiative to build tooling sets to make API creation faster and easier for other developers.

Brett is a truly outstanding senior technologist and I consider myself fortunate to have worked with him.

I worked with Brett on the API Delivery team for almost 3 years. Whenever Brett engaged my team of software architects, the practice was innovative, results-oriented, and always drove toward improving the life our Developer customer base. Along with possessing strong technical knowledge, Brett is a great listener, able to locate solution by collaborating with others. I experienced effort Brett drove to automate how API specifications are created, along with a separate effort to automate the entry and requirements process for teams to submit request for their APIs to be reviewed and approved by a Governance Board. Both efforts saved many hours of administrative work and increased teams’ efficiency with an automated experience. Given the opportunity to collaborate with Brett again, I would jump at the chance! I am confident that Brett would be an amazing addition to any team. As a plus, Brett is a great guy with a great sense of humor!

Brett is an extremely capable, reliable, and productive Engineer who I would be more than happy to work with again. He was an influential member of the team and instilled respect in every interaction. I can recall key instances when his input during times of crisis led to immediately diffuse tensions with practical steps to reaching a solution. He possesses a great disposition and uncanny ability to take on new challenges and find solutions. Highly recommended!

I had the pleasure of working with Brett for more than 4 years at the AT&T. As an architect and technical lead Brett's have the ability to command a room and get people on board with ideas—even people who were initially on completely different pages. As a team member or a leader, Brett earns my highest recommendation.

I worked with Brett as part of the API Developer Program at A&T, where he provide guidance and direction towards the API architecture and design for APIs. This greatly helped the team to create a user friendly and streamlined API interface for external partners. His work on developer experience with APIs and his relentless pursuit for driving towards an optimal design was seen in several projects. His contribution towards standardizing API best practices and design across the organization is truly commendable. He would be great asset to have on teams that are working on large scale solution architecture and design. I look forward to working with him again.

I worked with Brett for more than 5 years and is a great enthusiastic & approachable leader. His mastery on API design and documentation, has been critical in launching many successfully APIs in marketplace. Along with his API design skills, he has been leading in building tools for API creation, specification creation and development.

He is avid leaner and is curios to learning new technology and build tools to support his concepts. He is a great enthusiastic technical leader, who can take a concept from initiation to completion stage. Will be willing to work with him again as opportunity permits.