Rich Jackson
Principal Systems Engineer at Walmart
Bella Vista, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolRich Jackson is a Principal Systems Engineer at Walmart with 14+ years designing, developing, and operating foundational managed services that bridge enterprise cloud practices and z/OS mainframe environments. He has led architecture and implementation of Parallel Sysplex designs, multi-site synchronous/asynchronous DR patterns, and z/OS-hosted utility services that make legacy platforms consumable in cloud-oriented ecosystems. Rich’s background spans storage design for large SAP on z/OS, capacity forecasting, performance tuning, and open-source releases of mainframe utility products, giving him rare end-to-end operational insight. A practiced educator and cross-team collaborator, he translates complex mainframe concepts into reusable patterns and training for broad IT audiences. Based in Bella Vista, Arkansas, he pairs continual learning and practical delivery—he even moved from hands-on audio and small-business technical roles into large-scale enterprise systems engineering, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-first mindset.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Computer Information Systems at University of Louisiana at Monroe
Github Skills (140)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
PirateBox-Dev/package-openwrt-piratebox
Jul 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
openwrt-packagemakefileopenwrtfeed
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