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A Summer with CEM

By Carissa Lau posted 10 days ago
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A Summer with CEM at Broadcom Hi! I’m Carissa Lau, a junior studying Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This summer, I was invited to work with the Compliance Event Manager team. Project Overview Compliance Event Manager (CEM) protects businesses from data breaches, threat actors, and failed security audits through continuous mainframe security monitoring. CEM alerts users instantly to critical changes and security breaches, enabling immediate response and risk mitigation. Fig. 1: CEM User Interface. As a long-time user of Zowe, the open-source API mediation layer, ...
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My Experience Returning To Broadcom Mainframe

By Sparsh Mathur posted 10 days ago
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My Summer Experience With Broadcom Hi, I’m Sparsh Mathur, a senior studying computer science at Purdue University. This summer I had the opportunity to return to Broadcom’s Mainframe Division as a summer worker with the Precision SDK team. Given my insightful experience last summer working on automated visual regression testing, I was excited to return. Having just completed my junior year of college, I was eager to apply my expanded academic knowledge and contribute to the team with a fresh perspective. Addressing UI Framework Constraints As a summer worker with the Precision SDK team, I was tasked with evaluating our UI framework to improve ...
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My Second summer Experience at Broadcom

By Victor Taiwo posted 10 days ago
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Returning to Broadcom was something I was really excited for. Working on challenging problems that impact a large organization motivates me as an engineer. Last summer, I worked on the Mainframe Technical Support team, where I spent most of my time working on a JavaScript extension for Chrome. This summer, I joined the Mainframe Cybersecurity and Compliance team, working on Top Secret for z/OS. It was a different environment from what I was used to - I’d only worked on RACF previously. Top Secret has its own rules and regulations that make it distinctive to work with, and every single word and acronym it uses has to be learned to understand why it was created. ...
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My Summer Working with Top Secret

By Antonio Ibarra posted 10 days ago
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My Summer Working with Top Secret Introduction Hello! My name is Antonio, and I am an incoming senior at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Before starting my senior year, I was fortunate enough to complete the mainframe curriculum that NIU is renowned for in the community. Learning the different quirks, tools, and methods that are used while working on the mainframe was eye opening. After attending an IBM Z career connection event at NIU, one that Broadcom was a part of, I knew the mainframe was a whole different rabbit hole I wanted to explore and make a career out of. Being brought on to Broadcom MSD’s Cybersecurity and Compliance team,I ...
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Insane in the Mainframe

By Ethan Chastain posted 10 days ago
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Summer at Broadcom’s Mainframe Division This summer, I had the privilege of working with one of the mainframe development teams at Broadcom as a Next-Gen Mainframer. As part of an engineering team, our primary responsibility was to diagnose software defects reported by our customers and to provide fixes and updates as necessary. Before this internship, I had no idea how integral the mainframe is to the tasks that we perform every day. I did not know that mainframe technology was behind most of the transactions that occur everywhere in the world. Included as part of my experience working alongside this incredible team was learning the basics of High-Level ...
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My Summer Testing SYSVIEW for Db2 for z/OS at Broadcom

By Boris Rokhmanov posted 11 days ago
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Hi! I’m Boris Rokhmanov, and I’m an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying computer science and math. This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to join Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division, specifically working with the Cimrman team at the Lisle, IL office. Throughout my time here, I gained valuable exposure into how real-world development challenges are handled, while getting opportunities to hone my technical skills and engage with industry standard tools. My Project Testing is an essential step of the software development process. It sits between the phases of writing code and deployment, and serves to catch bugs or ...
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Green Screens and Big Dreams

By Yash Saini posted 11 days ago
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Introduction Hi everyone! My name is Yash Saini, and I’m a Computer Science graduate from Northern Illinois University (NIU). This summer, I returned to Broadcom for my second internship, joining the Mainframe Cybersecurity team working on Top Secret. During my previous internship, I worked with the Db2 team and helped to build a database management system. Switching from database management to mainframe cybersecurity was a complete 180, and gave me a fantastic opportunity to explore a totally different area of the business. What I Learned About the Mainframe Coming into this internship, I already had a solid foundation in mainframes, thanks to ...
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Supporting Support: My Summer in MSD

By Aarohan Joshi posted 11 days ago
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Intro & Project Overview Hi, my name is Aarohan, and I am currently studying Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As I am taking a growing interest in AI engineering and solutions, joining the Mainframe Support team to add AI-powered functionalities as a part of the CMS Web Extension was a dream come true. Within just a few days of navigating the extension, meeting the team, and gathering feedback from support engineers on the current state and use cases of the extension, we got to work on implementing features that aligned with the support engineer feedback. By utilizing a large language model (LLM) we were ...
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Mainframe Software Summer Blog

By Arnav Thareja posted 11 days ago
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I joined Broadcom this summer as a mainframe software engineering summer worker following my junior year of college at Purdue. As a computer engineering major, my coursework and projects revolved heavily around software development, but mainframe systems was a field I had yet to learn about. I joined having a strong interest in learning about this complex and critical technology. Bridging the Gap: Modernizing Mainframe Testing and Security While I arrived with a foundation in modern development, I quickly realized that the scale and complexity of mainframe architecture presented a steep but exciting learning curve. Coming in with a background in modern ...
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Building a Performance Evaluation Framework for MCP Servers

By Jeremiah Thomas posted 11 days ago
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Introduction: Howdy, Mainframers! I’m Jeremiah Thomas, an incoming senior Computer Engineering major at Texas A&M. This summer, I had the privilege of interning with Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division under the DevOps value stream with the Code4z Assistant team to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) performance evaluation framework. I had the opportunity to work alongside incredibly talented engineers on frontier technology that is driving AI models toward increasingly powerful enterprise capabilities. This project sharpened my skills in Python, Agile development, and systems architecture and let me dive deeper into MCP, network synchronization, ...
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Bringing Zero Trust Infrastructure to Mainframe Observability

By Carter Frank posted 11 days ago
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Bringing Zero Trust Infrastructure Mainframe Observability During my second summer at Broadcom, I rejoined the AIOps value stream to continue contributing to a mainframe observability platform that helps enterprise users manage the health and performance of mainframe environments. While my previous project centered on internal application health and visibility, this summer’s challenge shifted toward network infrastructure and microservice security. The goal? To empower developers to focus purely on business logic while maintaining zero-trust security across microservices for customers. This project advances mainframe modernization by offloading mTLS ...
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My Summer on Broadcom's Watchtower: Monitoring a Monitor

By Carter Frank posted Aug 07, 2025
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My Summer on Broadcom's Watchtower: Monitoring a Monitor I had the amazing opportunity this summer to join the Broadcom Mainframe AIOps value stream to work on Watchtower™—an observability platform that helps users monitor the health and behavior of mainframe environments through real-time insights. My summer project focused on Watchtower’s self-observability and building a health-checking tool to monitor and assess Watchtower’s internal state. The goal - prototype and begin productizing a full-stack application that surfaces meaningful metrics, performance bottlenecks, and Kubernetes-level events. The result empowers internal developers with faster ...
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My Broadcom Experience: Making Testing Easier

By Jonathan Castro posted Aug 07, 2025
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Hi, I'm Jonathan Castro — a computer science graduate from Northern Illinois University. This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to join Broadcom as a Next-Gen Mainframer on the AAM Team in the Lisle office. It has been an amazing learning experience—one that gave me hands-on exposure to real-world cybersecurity challenges. This project not only helped me sharpen my technical skills, but also allowed me to collaborate with incredible people and deepen my understanding of industry best practices in an agile environment. My Project: Automating R_FACTOR Testing Ever heard of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)? It’s essential for modern security—requiring ...
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Mainframe DevOps: My Summer in Broadcom's Gen Team

By Saishravan Muthukrishnan posted Aug 06, 2025
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This summer, I had the opportunity to join the Gen Product team within Broadcom’s Mainframe Division as a summer Next-Gen Mainframer. Gen is a tool that provides a unified environment for developing and maintaining large-scale applications across multiple platforms. During my time here, I worked on modernizing Gen’s application deployment process by building a command-line utility called gendeploycli . This tool automates the deployment of Gen applications in containerized environments — equipping Gen to make another step forward in the modern DevOps adoption journey. Through this project, I gained experience with the Go programming language, collaborated ...
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My Summer on Broadcom’s Mainframe Resource Intelligence Team

By Kevin Aguirre posted Aug 05, 2025
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This summer, I had the opportunity to join Broadcom’s MRI ( Mainframe Resource Intelligence ) team as a summer Next-Gen Mainframer. Much like a medical MRI helps diagnose health issues, Broadcom’s MRI tool gives businesses and IT leaders deep insights into their mainframe systems—insights that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. Customers who use MRI can gain access to a variety of assessments and reports, including hardware analysis, security audits, and execution metrics. And, perhaps most impressively, as a Beyond Code offering, MRI is available at no cost to Broadcom customers. Understanding how these entitlements are used is critical; usage ...
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My Summer on Broadcom's Support Team

By Michael Sensenbrenner posted Aug 05, 2025
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This summer, I had the opportunity to work on the Support Team at Broadcom. In my first week, I met the entire team and quickly began shadowing Support Engineers to learn what their daily responsibilities looked like. They introduced me to a web-based tool called Wolken, which they use to manage support cases, customer information, and case statuses. While observing how they completed and closed cases, I noticed some inefficiencies in their workflow. Although they used Wolken to communicate with customers, they often had to leave the platform to search for the information they needed to resolve the case. To help streamline their workflow and ...
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A Summer That Shaped My Career: My Experience at Broadcom

By Victor Taiwo posted Aug 05, 2025
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Working at Broadcom this summer was an incredible experience, one that significantly shaped my career growth and introduced me to a culture where collaboration is deeply embedded in the software we build. The professionalism and work ethic of the people here left a lasting impression on me. Everyone I encountered was welcoming, especially toward newer team members like myself, offering guidance on how to navigate the environment and make the most of the opportunity. My team was nothing short of exceptional. Watching them manage multiple projects with such grace and effectiveness was inspiring. Every day brought measurable progress, and I found myself constantly ...
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A Summer to Remember: My Experience with The Open Mainframe Project

By Peizhao Mei posted Aug 04, 2025
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Last summer, I worked on the Zowe Python SDK project with the Zowe team under the Open Mainframe Project at Broadcom’s Pittsburgh office. This summer, I rejoined the team to contribute further on a different project. Arriving in May, I felt a mix of excitement and anticipation—eager to build on my prior experience and dive once again into the world of mainframe development. Just like last time, the team’s warm welcome and collaborative spirit set the tone for an engaging and intensive 12 week journey. What I Focused On My work this summer centered on Zowe Native Proto, an open-source, SSH-based protocol designed to expose z/OS operations with minimal ...
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Next-Gen Mainframing: Making Testing 10x Better

By Jeffrey Wong posted Aug 04, 2025
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Hi, I’m Jeff Wong—a computer engineering graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After an incredible summer with the z/Raiders team last year, this marks my second time working as a Next-Gen Mainframer—again under Broadcom’s MSD Data Management Team. This summer, I joined the Pioneers, a team focused on making database administration on the mainframe seamless. My role? Use modern tools to accelerate that mission by a factor of ten. Project Overview My project focused on developing and integrating automated tests for RC/Compare for Db2 for z/OS, a Broadcom tool that runs under ISPF (Interactive System Productivity Facility). ...
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My Summer Experience with Broadcom Mainframe

By Sparsh Mathur posted Aug 02, 2025
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My Summer Experience with Broadcom Mainframe This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work with Broadcom’s Mainframe Division, specifically with the Precision SDK teams, including Dashboard and Core SDK. As it was my first experience with a summer-long position, I wasn’t sure what to expect—but any uncertainty quickly disappeared once I dove into my project. The Problem: Visual Defects Hurt User Trust Visual bugs are more than cosmetic—they erode customer trust. In fact, 88% of users say they’re unlikely to return after a poor experience. At present, Precision’s visual checks are done manually. This process is time-consuming, costly, ...
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