Thomas Schwarz
Program Manager OpenShift On Z at IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH
Stuttgart Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Schwarz is a seasoned technology leader with over three decades of experience in IBM engineering and program management, currently driving OpenShift on Z initiatives. He combines deep technical grounding in mainframe Linux and systems software with extensive organizational transformation expertise, having led teams and change programs for groups of 20 to 200 people. Since 2020 he augments his leadership with systemic coaching and pastoral counseling, bringing a human-centered approach to complex product and people challenges. His background spans hands-on software configuration and test-lab operations up through strategy and operations, giving him rare end-to-end fluency across development lifecycle, delivery and stakeholder alignment. Based in the Stuttgart region, he is also a part-time trainer and coach focused on value creation, blending open source sensitivity with NGO-sector experience. Notably, his long tenure at IBM reflects sustained delivery in mission-critical platform projects and a knack for bridging research, development and operational realities.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Elektrotechnik, Dipl. Ing. (BA), Diplom, Elektrotechnik, Dipl. Ing. (BA) at Berufsakademie Stuttgart
Github Skills (8)
pak2
cloud-pak-for-data1
data-pipelines1
flowable1
apache-flink1
business-process1
java1
data-engineering1
Github contributions (4)
schwarztho/BPMKafkaIntegration
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
schwarztho/ActivitiIisWorkflowSamples
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
coupleactiviti-workflow-engineinformation-serverworkflow-engineactiviti
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