Fridolín Pokorný
Contractor at Rocket.net
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolFridolín Pokorný is a seasoned contractor and backend-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, secure systems and developer tools from Brno, Czechia. He has led projects that span async Python backends, dependency-security services, and infrastructure automation—work that includes porting synchronous services to asyncio and designing ML-driven dependency resolvers for Red Hat’s Thoth. A prolific open-source contributor, he’s influenced Python packaging and security specs (notably work on PEP 710 provenance) and improved core observability integrations at Datadog. His background ranges from kernel-level networking (AF_KTLS) to full-stack UI/account tooling in Cockpit, reflecting rare cross-layer fluency. Known for blending research-grade thinking with pragmatic engineering, he also holds a master’s in IT security and has co-authored multiple patent proposals and conference presentations.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Technology Security, Master’s Degree, Information Technology Security at Brno University of TechnologyInformation Technology, Information Technology at Technological Educational Institute of Crete
English, Slovak, Czech
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Github Skills (22)
json10
javascript10
useraccounts10
python10
account-manager10
testing10
packaging10
linux10
integrations10
user-management10
pep10
agent10
html10
cockpit10
datadog10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cockpit-project/cockpit
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 47 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Fridolín contributed significantly to the account management features of the Cockpit project, particularly focusing on eliminating dependencies on external services like accountsservice. Their commits demonstrate expertise in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, modifying the UI and backend logic related to user creation, deletion, password management, and account role administration. They also implemented a server time implementation and set timezone features, and added a password strength indicator feature.
web-appgraphical-interfacejavascriptweb-basedgraphical
DataDog/integrations-core
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fridolín contributed to the `datadog/integrations-core` repository by implementing and improving core functionalities related to the Datadog Agent's integrations. They refactored logging setups and introduced exception handling by creating a new exception hierarchy. The user also improved the code base by using packaging instead of `pkg_resources` for parsing versions. Finally, the user implemented end-to-end integration tests.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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