Barbora Holusova
Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Ostrava - město, Moravia-Silesia, Czechia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBarbora Holusova is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with nine years in engineering leadership, currently scaling global teams at Red Hat to deliver resilient, customer-facing RHEL tooling. She combines deep operational experience—from leading 40+ Java development and application operations teams to quality engineering—with a hands-on mindset grounded in Agile, DevOps, and ITIL practices. Barbora is known for building high-trust, multicultural teams through intentional hiring, performance coaching, and company-wide engagement initiatives, while keeping technical reliability front and center. Her background includes practical QA and backend contributions to open-source projects like kie-wb-common, where she focused on test stability and API validation—work that reflects her detail-oriented approach to product quality. An advocate for diversity in tech, she stays active with PyLadies and recently added Certified Scrum Master and Agile Leader credentials to better support team agility and growth. Based in Ostrava, she blends operational rigor, people development, and community advocacy to evolve both products and the engineers who build them.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Inženýr (Ing.), Economics and Management in the Field of Raw Materials, Inženýr (Ing.), Economics and Management in the Field of Raw Materials at Technical University of OstravaMathematical Economics, Mathematical Economics at Technische Universität Clausthal
Czech, English, German, Russian, Slovak
Github Skills (6)
javas10
debug10
java10
testing10
junit9
error-handling8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kiegroup/kie-wb-common
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Shared screens, widgets and services for KIE workbenches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Barbora primarily focused on fixing bugs and addressing warnings within the project. They corrected errai warnings, fixed Windows-specific test failures, and migrated tests for read-only Java editor mode. Additionally, the user addressed input validation issues for properties within the library API. The user also made adjustments to test names to align with Surefire and Failsafe patterns.
kiewidgets
barboras7/kie-tools
Aug 2022 - Jun 2024
Tooling for Kogito http://kogito.kie.org
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonkiekogitotooling
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.