Filip Křepinský
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFilip Křepinský is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure at Red Hat, where he progressed from intern to principal across OpenShift and virtualization teams. He brings deep Kubernetes and OpenShift expertise, contributing to high-profile projects like upstream Kubernetes and OpenShift's conformance, release tooling, and edge-focused MicroShift. Filip specializes in backend and DevOps work—CI/CD, build systems, tests and automation—regularly improving reliability and deployment flows while tackling API migrations and test-suite robustness. He combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic QA sensibilities, adding e2e tests and fixes to prevent regressions in production-grade orchestration systems. Based in Germany and trained in computer science at Masaryk University, he’s as comfortable refactoring build internals as he is tuning release pipelines for secure, mirrored image delivery. An understated strength is his focus on reducing operational friction through small, targeted changes that scale across large open-source ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies
Github Skills (28)
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kubernetes10
container10
docker10
testing10
e2e-test10
statefulset10
kubectl10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:675 reviews, 21 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Filip contributed to the Kubernetes project by addressing issues related to quota management in the kubectl tool, ensuring consistent unit formatting. They fixed issues and added tests to the iterative rollouts of deployments in the e2e test suite. The user also made changes to the `update-translations.sh` script to improve translations management. They addressed a bug in JSONPath and added a test to prevent regressions. The user also added an e2e test for the StatefulSet's MinReadySeconds functionality, and fixed an API error handling issue within the StatefulSet controller.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
openshift/microshift
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
A small form factor OpenShift/Kubernetes optimized for edge computing
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Filip primarily focused on improving the build and operational aspects of the Microshift project. Their work included refactoring the build process by introducing the `cli.Run` method for initializing logs and hiding unsupported flags. They also addressed vendor dependencies and updated the assets used by the project. Furthermore, the user contributed to disabling specific controllers and passing log levels, which suggests an emphasis on streamlining deployment and configuration.
containersedge-computingfactoropenshiftedge
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