Leon Kiriliuk
IBM SR DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Toronto, Canada Area
Leon Kiriliuk currently leads the world-wide Linux on Z open-source ecosystem center of competency team with the mission of developing, porting and managing open-source technology. Focus areas include languages and development environments, databases, analytics and cloud. Leon is also part of the leadership team for the Z Innovation Lab, driving the development of proof of concept for industry solutions to demonstrate the value proposition of Linux on Z and LinuxONE.
Leon has been an IBMer for 17 years; he spent the majority of his career working on System Z in various roles including release & development manager for Enterprise COBOL as well as z/OS XL C/C++. He is also passionate to Linux and the open-source community.