Honza Pokorny
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolHonza Pokorny is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and deploying web applications and infrastructure, currently based in Halifax and working at Red Hat. He combines front-end craftsmanship—having led UI work on the OpenShift Cluster Console—with deep backend and DevOps expertise in bare-metal provisioning, image registry automation, and system-level integrations. His contributions span notable open-source projects such as OpenShift, Metal3, and Alacritty, demonstrating a rare blend of compiler/functional-programming interests (Clojure, Haskell) and practical hardware/BMC interaction. Comfortable across the full stack, he is especially skilled at turning complex provisioning and installation challenges into maintainable automation and performant UI components. An unexpected detail: his academic background is in Divinity, underscoring a nontraditional pathway into rigorous technical problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Divinity at University of Aberdeen
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Github Skills (55)
libvirt10
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
dashboard10
bare-metal10
mc10
controller10
configuration-management10
typescript10
linux10
terminal-emulator10
cloud-infrastructure10
bash10
image-store10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
metal3-io/baremetal-operator
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Bare metal host provisioning integration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 54 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Honza primarily focused on enhancing the bare metal operator by implementing and refining hardware inspection and provisioning logic. They introduced new fields and made type updates within the `BareMetalHost` and related structures, demonstrating a focus on data modeling. The commits include updates to the Ironic and fixture provisioners to align with the new hardware types and additions of support for redfish virtual media, including idrac bmc support, which demonstrates expertise in BMC interaction and hardware management.
bare-metalprovisioningmetalhostkubernetes
openshift-metal3/dev-scripts
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
Scripts to automate development/test setup for openshift integration with https://github.com/metal3-io/
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 12 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Honza primarily focused on automating and configuring the development and deployment environment for an OpenShift integration project related to Metal3. They implemented features like mirroring OpenShift images to a local registry and configuring storage for the image registry. The contributions included modifying scripts, configurations, and deployment files to improve the setup, including setting up and using local image registries, and upgrading dependencies. These changes indicate a focus on infrastructure automation and streamlining the deployment process.
continuous-deploymentmetal3openshift-integrationopenshiftkubernetes
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