Jan Dobeš
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Dobeš is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years building cloud-native backend systems for Red Hat, currently leading development of vulnerability services for OpenShift and the Hybrid Cloud Console. He combines deep expertise in Go and Python with hands-on experience deploying services on OpenShift and contributing to Red Hat Insights components. His earlier work on Satellite 5 and the Spacewalk/Uyuni projects shows a strong track record in package management, repository synchronization, and maintaining large open-source codebases. Known for pragmatic refactoring and robust handling of edge cases like proxy configs and nested repositories, he bridges customer-facing support issues with long-term architectural improvements. Based in Brno, Czechia, he brings both leadership and individual-contributor craftsmanship to security-focused platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bakalář (Bc.), Bakalář (Bc.) at Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Fakulta informačních technologiíInženýr (Ing.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Inženýr (Ing.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Czech, English
Github Skills (7)
yum10
python10
rpm10
system-management9
javas8
java8
postgresql7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
uyuni-project/uyuni
Apr 2013 - Sep 2018
Open-source systems management and configuration platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:412 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the back-end of the Uyuni project, focusing on repository synchronization and package management features. They implemented enhancements for syncing RPM metadata, addressed issues related to local repositories with subdirectories, and improved the handling of proxy configurations. Furthermore, the user's work included code refactoring for better code quality, and introduced features to manage channel configurations, emphasizing their role in maintaining and improving the core functionality of the system.
spring-bootpythonuyunisuse-managerlinux
RedHatInsights/vulnerability-engine
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Vulnerability Engine
Contributions:619 reviews, 688 commits, 1490 PRs in 4 years 5 months
vulnerability
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