Ivan Straka
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Czechia
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Top SchoolIvan Straka is a Principal Software Quality Engineer with 11 years of experience focusing on reliability and automation for WildFly/EAP at Red Hat, where he coordinates releases and leads cloud strategy across Azure and AWS. He combines deep back-end expertise—contributing bug fixes and enhancements to high-profile open-source projects like WildFly and Narayana—with hands-on CI/CD, test orchestration, and custom framework development for OpenShift and Kubernetes. Ivan has driven cross-team initiatives involving Ansible and cloud provisioning, and his work improving transaction handling, failover, and database driver integrations reflects a pragmatic focus on production resiliency. He also teaches JavaEE and Spring Boot at Masaryk University, bringing academic clarity to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer science, Master's degree, Computer science at Brno University of Technology
Czech, Slovenian, English
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Github Skills (18)
transaction10
postgresql10
mysql10
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
wildfly10
jdbc9
configuration-management9
test-automation9
clustering9
database-management9
jndi8
jira7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wildfly/wildfly
Jan 2016 - Dec 2024
WildFly Application Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 9 PRs, 20 comments in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements related to the WildFly application server. Their contributions involved addressing issues in areas such as failover, transaction handling, and subsystem configurations. They also implemented changes in testing frameworks, addressing issues with timeout attributes and the correct address for node1. The user's work is concentrated on improving the reliability, performance, and configuration of the application server.
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jbosstm/narayana
Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
The codebase for the narayana project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ivan contributed to the codebase by modifying database driver implementations for PostgreSQL and MySQL. They updated the JNDI manager to support newer database drivers, and adjusted code to support PostgreSQL Plus 10.1. Additionally, the user made changes to set stores to null after shutdown. These changes focused on database integration and system configuration.
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