Ivan Vecera
Principal Linux Kernel Engineer (Network Stack Network Drivers) at Red Hat
Zlin, Czechia
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Top SchoolIvan Vecera is a Principal Linux Kernel Engineer with 15+ years focused on networking, currently driving core network stack and device driver work at Red Hat. He co-maintains upstream switchdev infrastructure and the zl3073x DPLL driver, and is a maintainer for Ethtool, bridge/switchdev, and Mellanox mlxsw in RHEL. His hands-on experience spans fixing and enhancing high-profile drivers (mlxsw, be2net, bna, tg3, r8169) and deep expertise in bridge/TC subsystems. Beyond server networking, he contributes to embedded and Android system development as the official LineageOS maintainer for the Mi 9 Lite (pyxis), showing a practical cross-domain skillset. Based in Zlín, Czechia, Ivan combines long-term kernel stewardship with pragmatic engineering that keeps production networks and embedded platforms interoperable.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Informatics at Masarykova univerzita v Brne
Slovak, English
Github Skills (119)
gcc10
system10
service-manager10
systemd10
init10
linux10
miui10
vagrant10
snapdragon10
compatibility10
kernel10
device-tree10
android-ndk10
llvm-clang10
xiaomi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ivecera/android_frameworks_base
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 79 branches in 2 years
ivecera/android_kernel_xiaomi_sdm710
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Pure CAF kernel for Sirius (Xiaomi Mi 8 SE), Grus (Xiaomi Mi 9 SE), Pyxis (Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite/Mi CC 9), Vela (Xiaomi Mi CC 9 Meitu Edition)
Contributions:214 pushes, 103 branches in 1 year 4 months
kernelxposedandroid-frameworkpyxiscaf
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