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Richelle Anne Craw: Open Source, Advocacy, and the Next-Gen Mainframe
Richelle Anne Craw Software EngineerBeta Systems Software Linz, AustriaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Richelle Anne Craw is the ultimate "multi-hyphenate" influencer: speaker, instructor, mentor, podcaster, and coder....
Opening Access Through Innovation: Emma Skovgård’s Approach to Mainframe Security and Learning
Emma Skovgård IT Security Engineer, Danske BankFounder, dinoframe.io Copenhagen, DenmarkThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Emma Skovgård, the path into the mainframe ecosystem has been anything but traditional, but that...
Saurabh Banerjee: Scaling Mainframe Modernization with WhatsApp
Saurabh Banerjee Senior Manager, Mainframe Innovation and EngineeringEnsono Pune Division, Maharashtra, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Engineering a Human-Centric Mainframe Modernization In today’s parlance,...
Building a Global Learning Engine: Amit Sharma’s Relentless Commitment to Access
Amit Sharma Senior IBM i Developer at Programmers.ioContent Creator – Tech Sharmit (YouTube) Jaipur, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Amit Sharma, the mission has never been about visibility. It has always been...
How Gil Peleg Is Winning VC Backing for Mainframe AI
Gil Peleg Co-founder, CEOGeniez AI London, England, United KingdomThis article features Gil Peleg, one of the top four 2026 Influential Mainframers.While others try to modernize around the mainframe, Gil Peleg is building AI inside it. VCs are paying attention. ...
▶️ Not Nostalgia. Not Hype. Just Data: Mainframe Trends 2026
At SHARE Orlando, Amanda Hendley, Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe, shared insights from the 2026 annual Arcati survey. She cut through the industry hype to focus on what the data say about the current state of the platform. The overarching theme? While the core...
Bridging Worlds: How Anshul Agrawal Is Bringing AI to the Heart of IMS
Anshul Agrawal Senior Manager, Product DevelopmentBMC Software Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.The mainframe has always been built on trust. Decades of reliability, scale, and performance have made...
❓Influential Mainframer Trivia: Bob Evans
At Planet Mainframe, April is dedicated to honoring influential mainframers past and present. This week’s quiz dives into the life and times of Bob Evans (1927–2004), who played a central role in shaping modern enterprise computing during his career at IBM. ...
From Classroom to Community: Geoffrey Decker’s Mainframe Impact
Geoffrey Decker Instructor, Northern Illinois UniversityCo-Founder and Lead Instructor, Eli Madison Memorial Apprenticeships (EMMA) DeKalb, Illinois, USA This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.The Maestro of the Mainframe...
Making the Invisible Visible: How PJ Catalano Connects Mainframes to the Next Generation
Pasquale “PJ” Catalano IBM Z & LinuxONE Test ArchitectIBM Infrastructure, EST&IPoughkeepsie, New York, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.IBM Z & LinuxONE Test Architect and Master Inventor, Pasquale “PJ”...
