Summary
Samuel Turner is a software engineer with nine years of experience building core infrastructure for z/OS at IBM, currently focused on enabling native container support for mainframes. He joined IBM after internships that touched SMF reporting, testware, and system scheduler improvements, and has worked across device allocation, system management, and job scheduling for enterprise OSes. A Virginia Tech computer science graduate, he also contributed to research-grade cache optimizations in gem5 and taught undergraduate courses in C++, data structures, computer organization, and operating systems. Comfortable across C++, Python, Java, and scripting, he blends low-level systems expertise with practical delivery on mission-critical platforms. Colocated in Poughkeepsie, he brings a mix of academic rigor and hands-on mainframe engineering that’s rare among cloud-native container engineers.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, French