Attila Fazekas
Principal Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolAttila Fazekas is a Principal Quality Engineer with 14 years of experience and a deep Linux background spanning embedded and server environments. Based in Brno, he has driven quality and automation at Red Hat since 2012, progressing from Quality Engineer to principal roles focused on robust testing and backend reliability. An active OpenStack contributor, he has improved Nova’s libvirt driver, expanded Tempest test coverage (including EC2/S3 and Swift versioning), and enhanced DevStack automation—demonstrating both systems-level expertise and test automation rigor. Comfortable with C, FPGA work, and low-level kernel and I/O concerns, he brings a physics-informed analytical mindset to challenging engineering problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that improve performance and compatibility across hypervisors and cloud deployments.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Physics,Computer Science, Master, Physics,Computer Science at University of DebrecenBánki Donát Technology Secondary School
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (23)
libvirt10
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
networking10
automation10
openstack10
service-design10
rest-api10
service-provider10
automations10
devops10
api-testing10
test-automation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/tempest
Oct 2012 - Mar 2019
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:214 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Attila's commits primarily focus on adding and improving test cases for the OpenStack Tempest project. They contributed significant test coverage by adding EC2/S3 API testing and implemented tests for swift object versioning. Furthermore, the user removed unused configuration variables and addressed RFC compliance issues to improve the quality and adherence to standards.
openstacktesting
openstack/devstack
Mar 2013 - Feb 2019
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:93 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Attila primarily contributed to improving the DevStack environment, focusing on automation and configuration. They added support for creating account rc files, including certificates and simplifying eucalyptus-related steps, and also added UEC image preparation to tempest. Several commits focused on fixing and enhancing the build and testing process by updating the install_pip script and ensuring python is installed. Additionally, they modified the exercises and euca scripts to handle error codes more correctly, which implies they are responsible for the automated testing environment setup.
openstacktesting
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