Daniel Bílý
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Wells, Maine, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Bílý is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 23 years of experience, currently driving backend work for Red Hat Insights for OpenShift and contributing to critical container tooling. He brings deep expertise in container security and SELinux—reflected in substantial contributions to high-profile projects like Docker (moby), runc, cri-o, Podman, Buildah, Skopeo and the SELinux userland—bridging low-level system hardening with cloud-native platforms. Skilled in Go and Python, he architects secure, production-grade services using Kubernetes/OpenShift, Kafka, PostgreSQL and observability/infra tooling, while applying SDL and BDD practices. Notably, he has implemented nuanced SELinux labeling and seccomp syscall standardization across container stacks, a behind-the-scenes contribution that materially improves runtime isolation. Based in Wells, Maine with roots in the Czech Republic, he combines open-source leadership with pragmatic DevOps and backend engineering.
23 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Brno University of TechnologyInformation Technology, Information Technology at Střední průmyslová škola elektrotechnická a informačních technologií Brno
English, Czech
Github Skills (54)
container10
docker10
security-hardening10
volumes10
apidoc10
api-design10
scripting10
image10
it-security10
configuration-management10
command-line-interface10
linux10
bash10
system-design10
c-programming10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
containers/buildah
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
A tool that facilitates building OCI images.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 411 reviews, 818 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the buildah tool's functionality, particularly in container management and image building. Their contributions involved defaulting options, fixing compilation issues, and expanding functionality. Additionally, the user focused on fixing errors, including those related to file permissions within the container and improving command line usage. The code was implemented using Go, and involved working with the containers/image and containers/storage libraries.
containersoci-imageruncpodmandocker
projectatomic/atomic
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Atomic Run Tool for installing/running/managing container images.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 543 commits, 452 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the project's tooling and infrastructure management. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality of the "atomic" command-line tool for managing container images. This included improvements to the installation process, adding functionalities like the "push" command for uploading images to a registry and implementing new tests for image verification. They demonstrated proficiency in scripting (bash) and Docker-related technologies by modifying and creating shell scripts, Dockerfiles, and testing procedures.
containersdocker-imageruncinstallingseccomp
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