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Fred Collins

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Distinguished Engineer for Legacy Modernization at IBM
📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Fred Collins is an IBM Distinguished Engineer focused on hybrid cloud modernization for the federal sector. With a PhD from Virginia Tech, he excels in transforming complex legacy systems using data science and AI. Colleagues describe him as exceptionally knowledgeable, engaging, and possessing great technical depth.

He has a lifelong passion for automotive racing and restoration, actively competing with and maintaining two vintage Datsun 240Z cars. He applies principles from racing, like incremental adjustment and measurable improvement, to his professional work in enterprise architecture.

He leads the pioneering effort to modernize the IRSs master file by transforming 1.2 million lines of 1960s-era assembly code using Generative AI.

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Experience
36 Years
Current Role
Distinguished Engineer for Legacy Modernization
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Legacy System Transformation
Leads complex federal projects, like the IRS modernization, to transform decades-old assembly code into modern, cloud-based applications.
AI for Code Modernization
He pioneers the application of Generative AI to re-engineer complex legacy codebases, successfully reducing development cycles from days to hours on mission-critical systems.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
Distinguished Engineer for Legacy Modernization
IBM
1-2022
Quantum Ambassador
IBM
3-2019 - 10-2024
GBS Federal Red Hat Integration Executive
IBM
9-2017 - 12-2018
Distingished Engineer and Blockchain Architect
IBM
4-2014 - 10-2024
Distinguished Engineer and Federal Sector Solutioning Team Executive
IBM
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Education
PhD
Virginia Tech
Master's degree
Virginia Tech
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