Summary
Jan Hutař is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 17 years at Red Hat, specializing in performance and scale testing, automation, and technical leadership for platforms like Red Hat Insights and Satellite. He blends deep QA roots and scripting (Bash, Python) with DevOps-savvy work on CI/CD, Kubernetes/Tekton, and secrets management, improving reliability and test performance at scale. An active contributor to open source projects such as Spacewalk and OpenShift release tooling, he has fixed memory leaks and hardened release pipelines for production-grade systems. Based in Brno with a master’s in Cybernetics, he pairs methodical engineering discipline from control systems with hands-on operational experience, often surfacing subtle test-environment issues before they reach customers.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cybernetics, Control and Measurements, Master's degree, Cybernetics, Control and Measurements at Brno University of Technology
Gymnázium, Šumperk, Masarykovo náměstí 8
English, Czech