Roy Fielding

American computer scientist who defined REST in his 2000 dissertation and was a principal author of the HTTP/1.1 specification.

authored

• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures writing 2000 [src]
• httpRange-14 resolution writing 2005 [src]

contributed to

• HTTP standard 1991 [src]
  HTTP/1.1

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding