Stephen K. Johnson Systems EngineerTrident Services, Inc. Chehalis, Washington, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For over 20 years, Stephen Johnston’s professional world was defined by the fast-moving landscape of...
Ezriel Gross Senior Technical Staff Member and Product Evangelist Rocket Software Wayne, New Jersey, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Ezriel Gross, a Senior Technical Staff Member and Product Evangelist at Rocket...
Scott Brod Product ManagerBroadcom Port Monmouth, NJ, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.In the world of enterprise computing, "legacy" is often used as a polite synonym for "outdated." But for Scott Brod, a Product...
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...
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...
IBM introduced IBM Project BOB at TechXchange 2025 as “an AI software development partner that understands your intent, repository, and security standards.” Positioned as an agentic AI tool, Bob aims to bring modernization expertise directly into developers’ daily...
Mainframe careers don’t suffer from a lack of interest, but a lack of pathways. EMMA was built to remove barriers to training, scaling, and hiring mainframe apprentices. This update revisits the program one year later, with results that tell a more nuanced workforce...
Amit Sharma, Content Creator at Tech Sharmit and Host of The Tech Sharmit Podcast, interviewed Uday Prasad, co–founder of ZedInfo Tech, about Prasad’s pivot from mariner to mainframer. Catch the full podcast on YouTube.Q: You have been in this industry for 30+ years....
