Neil Johnson
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Town of Cornwall, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer with a multi-decade focus on z/OS Parallel Sysplex development, bringing deep mainframe expertise to IBM since 1997. He led the team that delivered the z/OS Container Platform, bridging modern container workflows with enterprise mainframe reliability. With an MS in Computer Science from RPI and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on systems engineering. Based in Cornwall, NY, he pairs low-level operating system knowledge with product delivery experience, helping traditional infrastructure evolve toward cloud-native patterns. A longtime IBM engineer, he uniquely understands the interoperability challenges of running contemporary workloads on mission-critical z/OS environments.
6 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (22)
tui10
docker10
seccomp10
mainframe10
mouse10
specification10
command-line10
zos10
shell10
spawning10
podman9
runc9
cli9
python8
spinner7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
najohnsn/runtime-spec
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
OCI Runtime Specification
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
specificationruntimeoci-runtimedockerkubernetes
IBM/tnz
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Tn3270 to Z Python library
Contributions:11 releases, 86 reviews, 38 commits in 1 year
python-libraryemulatorpythonmousetn3270
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