Alois Mahdal
Python Developer at Freelance
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolAlois Mahdal is a pragmatic Python developer and QA advocate with 12 years of experience building and maintaining test suites, automation pipelines, and documentation for complex GNU/Linux and enterprise systems. He spent nearly a decade at Red Hat driving QA for installers, upgrade tooling (leapp), bootloaders and other core components, and has a hands-on approach to CI/CD, release practices and test framework development. Comfortable in Unix environments (Vim, Bash, i3) he blends scripting (Python, Bash, some Perl) with technical writing—contributions to the Anaconda installer docs show his focus on clarity and user-facing accuracy. Now freelancing, he prioritizes simplicity, software ethics and human-centered quality while remaining an active maintainer of open tooling born from his Red Hat work. Outside of code he’s as likely to be found hiking, sharing non-alcoholic beer with friends, or watching educational tech videos—an engineer who treats software as a human product, not just machinery.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Tomas Bata University in ZlínISŠ Uherský BrodBasic, Basic at Základní škola Bánov
English, Czech, Slovak
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rhinstaller/anaconda
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
System installer for Fedora, RHEL and other distributions
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Alois's commits primarily focus on clarifying and improving the documentation within the `anaconda` repository. They enhanced the clarity of boot option descriptions, particularly regarding the `inst.ks.all` option, addressing ambiguities and using imperative mode. The contributions involve refining the existing documentation to provide a more accurate and user-friendly explanation of Anaconda's behavior. These edits improve the overall documentation of the system installer.
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AloisMahdal/shellfu
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 8 branches, 17 tags in 1 year 10 months
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