Contract engineering
A senior engineer on your team, this month.
25+ years across IBM i, ERP, integration and identity, now building with AI. Contract or project-based, through Webcore Technologies LLC.
Jose Acosta
Founder & Principal Engineer
Sinking Spring, PA · Remote / hybrid
25+ yrs
IBM i & ERP
4+ yrs
Okta identity (enterprise)
C2C · 1099
via Webcore Technologies LLC
Skills
What I bring to your team
01IBM i development
- RPGLE (free & fixed)
- SQLRPGLE
- CL
- Db2 for i
- ILE service programs
- DDS → SQL DDL
02ERP
- BPCS 4.x / 6.x / 8.x
- Infor LX
- VAI S2K
- Order management
- Inventory · MRP
- AP / AR / GL
03Integration & EDI
- EDI X12
- TrustedLink
- SPS Commerce
- Salesforce
- Concur
- REST / SOAP
04AI engineering
- AI agents
- MCP servers
- RAG
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Context engineering
05Identity & security
- Okta
- SSO · MFA
- SAML · OIDC
- SCIM
- Lifecycle management
06Modern apps & BI
- .NET / Blazor
- React · Next.js
- Supabase
- Power BI
- Cognos
- SSRS / SSIS
Selected work
Recent highlights
EDI order adjudication engine
Db2 stored procedures on BPCS 6.2 for a multi-billion-dollar food manufacturer: PO validation, contract pricing, multi-warehouse inventory, millions of rows.
RAG knowledge corpus for AI agents
A 1.39M-row IBM i cross-reference database turned into 12,332 linked documents for MCP and RAG.
SCIM provisioning into IBM i
Okta identity lifecycle automated into IBM i through REST and exit programs, without rewriting RPG.
Experience
25 years, three chapters
- 2024 – presentWebcore TechnologiesAI engineering, IBM i, ERP and EDI consulting
- 2020 – 2024Okta · Senior Solutions EngineerEnterprise identity architecture, including IBM i hybrid environments
- 2000 – 2020IBM i & ERP consultingERP software vendors, food manufacturers and others: BPCS, Infor LX, EDI, BI
How to engage
Contract, project or advisory.
Contract (hourly)
Join your team full- or part-time. Corp-to-corp or 1099 through Webcore Technologies LLC.
Project (fixed scope)
A defined deliverable: an integration, a modernization or an AI agent.
Advisory
Architecture reviews and AI roadmaps for IBM i and ERP teams.