Jason Stapels
STSM IBM Z Platform Management, HMC SE
City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Stapels is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience at IBM, specializing in IBM Z firmware and systems management. He leads cross-continental teams and serves as product owner for the IBM Dynamic Partition Manager extension, driving features that enable live hardware configuration changes on mainframes to eliminate costly downtime. Jason architects high-performance persistence layers and I/O management services, integrates modern tooling like Docker, and champions agile and IBM Design Thinking practices inside traditionally waterfall environments. His background includes designing hybrid management consoles, security-focused error reporting infrastructure, and a published patent on reducing client-server network traffic. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York, he blends deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic product delivery and a focus on modernizing mainframe management using distributed and containerized architectures. An understated strength is his track record of introducing developer productivity improvements and CI tooling that scaled across global teams.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
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Github Skills (17)
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collection-manager8
nodejs8
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php6
laravel6
java6
emulation5
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jstapels/northeast-dnd
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
jstapels/jay-helpers
Oct 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:9 releases, 5 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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