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Greg Spranger

Senior Staff Architect at Broadcom

About

Greg Spranger is a Senior Staff Architect at Broadcom with 20+ years of experience spanning cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and mainframe - someone who genuinely thrives at the intersection of old-school enterprise tech and modern distributed systems. When he's not writing Python™ or wrangling the IBM® z/OS® operating system, he's probably building the bridge that makes those two worlds actually talk to each other.

Avoid Dependency Chaos: How to Manage Python Packages on Mainframe

When enterprises adopt Python on the mainframe, one of the first challenges that surfaces isn’t syntax, performance, or tooling. It’s package management.

June 3, 2026

Managing Python Versions on the Mainframe

As Python adoption on the mainframe accelerates, one truth becomes clear: success isn’t just about making Python available, it’s about making it manageable.

May 4, 2026

Why Python on the Mainframe? A Platform Engineer’s Perspective

If you’ve been around the z/OS operating system long enough, you’ve probably asked: Why bother with Python?

March 23, 2026

Avoid Dependency Chaos: How to Manage Python Packages on Mainframe

Managing Python Versions on the Mainframe

Why Python on the Mainframe? A Platform Engineer’s Perspective

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