Dominik Perpeet is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience, now directing Functional Safety Certification for automotive Linux at Red Hat from Rheinstetten, Germany. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Red Hat—shaping the In-Vehicle OS’s functional safety, build, and delivery teams—and combines hands-on software craftsmanship with regulatory and certification rigor. His background includes research at Fraunhofer and a Diplom in Computer Science from KIT, giving him a strong foundations in both applied research and industrial engineering practice. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed front-end improvements to the widely used Cockpit server UI, demonstrating attention to usable tooling as well as safety-critical systems. Colleagues know him for translating complex compliance requirements into practical, auditable development processes that keep open source systems production-ready for automotive use.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik, Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:492 commits, 1052 PRs, 601 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Cockpit project, specifically within the "shell" modules. Their commits focused on enhancing the user interface, including clarifying descriptions, adding features like a terminal reset button, improving the display of filesystem sizes, and modifying date/time displays for docker images. The user also refactored and improved the HTML and CSS of the terminal and corrected a typo in the shell.html file.
Contributions:5 PRs, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
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