John Bouzakis
Senior Software Engineer - CPO For DevOps Transformation, Z OS Development
Village of Wappingers Falls, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bouzakis is a senior software engineer with over 25 years of deep z/OS and z/VM automation, tooling, and release-engineering experience, now serving as CPO for DevOps Transformation in IBM's z/OS development organization. He blends hands-on automation (build, packaging, install) with Agile and DevOps coaching, having led transformational efforts, Jenkins PoCs, and acted as an advocate for modern CI/CD on mainframe platforms. A proven team leader and communicator, he has driven measurable improvements—doubling defect and requirement closure rates through developer training and reducing fixpack resolution costs via enhanced automation. He created customer-facing tooling such as a z/OSMF Marketplace sample portal and administers IBM’s prominent IBM-Z-zOS GitHub repo, bridging internal product teams and the wider mainframe community. Academically rigorous (MS in Computer Science, 3.94 GPA), he combines enterprise-scale delivery with a knack for rescuing stalled projects and turning them into patentable automation. Based in New York, he is equally comfortable in low-level z/OS engineering and high-level organizational change.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Polytechnic UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, 3.94, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 3.94 at Marist CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.66, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.66 at SUNY Stony Brook
Greek, Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/IBM-Z-zOS
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
The helpful and handy location for finding and sharing z/OS files, which are not included in the product.
Contributions:1 release, 97 reviews, 264 commits in 5 years 4 months
rexxmainframewlmsharingassistance
jbouzak/merge-conflict
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 11 branches in 1 day
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