Jan Holesovsky is a seasoned IT leader with 26 years' experience blending compliance, audit management, and delivery leadership across global enterprises, currently driving process and squad performance at Kyndryl from Brno. He has a strong security and risk background from long tenure at IBM where he shaped IT security policies, led ISO 27001 compliance efforts, and delivered measurable efficiency and service acceleration improvements. Jan pairs hands-on technical roots (2nd/3rd level security and server administration) with process ownership — driving automation, homogeneous reporting and IAM controls that cut costs and speed delivery. He is also an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like Collabora Online and LibreOffice dictionaries, contributing mobile UI fixes, clipboard/image paste integrations and build/package improvements across many languages. Known for mentoring regional teams and collaborating with global stakeholders, he combines pragmatic engineering instincts with audit-grade governance.
26 years of coding experience
Information technology and systems, Information technology and systems at Střední průmyslová škola a Vyšší odborná škola Brno, Sokolská
High school, Secondary school, Information Technology, High school, Secondary school, Information Technology at SPSS Sokolska
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the `dictionaries` repository, specifically modifying `makefile.mk` files within various language directories. These modifications appear to involve integrating and packaging language-specific dictionaries, including Catalan, English, German, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Serbian, Vietnamese, Danish, French, and Ukrainian. The commits suggest a focus on build processes, file management, and extension packaging related to language support within the LibreOffice project.
Issue tracker only. Active development is on Gerrit at https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:171 reviews, 109 commits, 228 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on front-end development within the Collabora Online project, making significant contributions to the mobile user interface. They addressed layout and alignment issues in the mobile spreadsheet view, resulting in a more polished user experience. The user also implemented features related to image pasting from the clipboard on Android and introduced postMessage interactions for improved hyperlink handling and pasting capabilities, suggesting expertise in web technologies and mobile integration. Additionally, the user addressed a few back-end specific items.
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