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Technical Advisory Council

The Technical Advisory Council (TAC) directs and coordinates the activities and investments made in the technical community, providing a home and infrastructure for open source projects supporting the mainframe.

Anyone can participate in the technical activities of the Open Mainframe Project. You can learn how to get involved at https://tac.openmainframeproject.org.

Technical Administrator at State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Andrea Orth
Lead z/OS Open Source Porting Engineer at Rocket Software

Giancarlo Frix
Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom

Gregory MacKinnon
Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect System z Virtualization & Linux at IBM

Ingo Adlung
z/OS Open Source and Analytics Architect at IBM

Joe Bostian
IBM Mainframe Consultant at SUSE

Nikolay Gueorguiev
LinuxOne Engineering Operations Director at Citi

Phil Tully
Senior Software Architect at Rocket Software

Sean Grady
IBM Z Influencer Program Manager at IBM

Sudharsana Srinivasan

Technical Administrator at State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Andrea Orth

Andrea is a Technical Administrator at State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and is the TSC Chairperson for the GenevaERS project.

Lead z/OS Open Source Porting Engineer at Rocket Software

Giancarlo Frix

Giancarlo Frix is a Software Engineer working on open source porting at Rocket Software and a maintainer of the Ambitus project.

Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom

Gregory MacKinnon

Gregory MacKinnon is Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom.

Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect System z Virtualization & Linux at IBM

Ingo Adlung

Ingo Adlung is Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect System z Virtualization & Linux at IBM. Ingo serves as a non-voting CTO resource for the Open Mainframe Project TSC.

z/OS Open Source and Analytics Architect at IBM

Joe Bostian

Joe Bostian is a z/OS Open Source and Analytics Architect at IBM and the lead of the Open Mainframe Project Ambitus project. Joe has spent his career enabling application development on the mainframe, from the early days of Unix Systems Services through the current open source era.  He has spent several years as part of the Open Data Analytics development team.  He is currently focused on secure open source ecosystems that allow both the adoption of open software on the mainframe, and the integration of the mainframe into these ecosystems.

IBM Mainframe Consultant at SUSE

Nikolay Gueorguiev

Nikolay is an IBM Mainframe Consultant at SUSE.

LinuxOne Engineering Operations Director at Citi

Phil Tully

Phil is LinuxOne Engineering Operations Director at Citi and serves as Chairperson of the TAC for the Open Mainframe Project.

Senior Software Architect at Rocket Software

Sean Grady

Sean is a Senior Software Architect at Rocket Software and represents the Zowe project.

IBM Z Influencer Program Manager at IBM

Sudharsana Srinivasan

Sudharsana is a Program Manager with the IBM Z Ecosystem team. She has worked on several programs, most prominently the COBOL Course that launched on the Open Mainframe Project, and currently co-leads the Technical Steering Committee of the project. As an entrepreneur, she helped launch bay area startup ‘Mom Relaunch’, where she continues to be an advisory member of the board. She is also a core team member of a non-profit organization AIM for Seva that works to bring education to underprivileged children in India.

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