Gennaro "Jerry" Cuomo (born 1962) is an American software engineer working for IBM since 1987. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Middleware, a business unit in IBM Systems Group.Holding the title of IBM Fellow, he is one of the founding fathers of IBM WebSphere Software. At IBM, Cuomo has led projects in the areas of Mobile computing, Cloud computing, Web APIs, Web Application Servers, Java, TCP/IP, real-time collaboration software, and high-performance transactional systems.