Gary Picher
Manager, IBM Z Engineering System Test
Village of Wappingers Falls, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Picher is an experienced IBM engineering manager and former senior software engineer with a 22+ year career driving runtime development, system test, and architecture for WebSphere on IBM Z. He led a core runtime team for a decade and later spearheaded software architecture and process changes that modernized a large legacy codebase into an agile, CI/CD-driven delivery model. Comfortable both hands-on writing code and administering large test environments, he pairs deep technical know-how with client-facing experience resolving issues and advising high-level architectures. As a manager he cultivates positive, inclusive teams, focusing on individual strengths and continual learning across the software stack. Based in Wappingers Falls, NY and grounded in a BS in Computer Science from Clarkson University, he brings rare continuity and institutional knowledge that accelerates product stability and modernization. An eager lifelong learner, he actively seeks new technologies and skills to bridge development, testing, and architecture.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Clarkson University
English
Github Skills (60)
application-server10
quest10
java10
composable10
microservices10
server10
runtime-environment10
addon8
kabanero8
appsody8
world-of-warcraft8
tla7
collections6
eclipse6
openliberty6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
garypicher/open-liberty
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:2 pushes, 22 branches in 9 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
garypicher/kabanero-events
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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