Jan Kuřík
Principal Quality Assurance Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolJan Kuřík is a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer based in Brno with over two decades of IT experience and 11 years in hands-on engineering and program management roles at Red Hat. He blends deep Unix/Linux system administration, performance tuning and high-availability design with proven program and release management skills across Fedora, RHEL and JBoss product lines. Known for steering mission-critical implementations, he has moved between roles as a developer, team lead and program manager, driving quality and delivery in telecommunications, healthcare and public administration. An active open-source contributor, he has improved stability in the well-known Performance Co-Pilot project by fixing memory, test and PMDA issues. Jan pairs formal certifications (RHCE/RHCSA, ISTQB, PRINCE2) with practical expertise in C/C++, shell scripting and CI/CD tooling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving that connects low-level system fixes to large-scale release outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Brno University of TechnologyExam (EX200), Exam (EX200) at Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)Certified, Certified at Prince2 FoundationExam (EX294), Exam (EX294) at Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)ISTQB Certified, ISTQB Certified at ISTQB CERTIFICATION INSTITUTE
Czech, English, Slovak, Russian
Github Skills (15)
c1710
monitoring10
findbugs10
analyse10
distributed-systems10
performance-monitor10
time-series10
performance-analysis10
performance-monitoring10
fixest10
c1110
metric10
system-administration8
python7
bash6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
performancecopilot/pcp
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Performance Co-Pilot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 28 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to bug fixes and code enhancements within the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) project. They addressed issues related to memory management in `pmieconf`, resolved problems causing test failures in `pmlogger_daily_report`, and integrated changes from the master branch. Additionally, they worked on improving exception handling in the MSSQL PMDA and fixed syntax errors in the DS389 PMDA. These contributions focused on improving the stability and functionality of the PCP monitoring tools.
analysisperformancegraphmetricsmonitoring
kurik/ansible-pcp
Jun 2021 - Dec 2024
Ansible roles for the Performance Co-Pilot toolkit
Contributions:17 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 6 months
ansible-rolesnetwork-automationansibleperformancenetscaler
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