Josef Kopřiva
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Kopřiva is a Principal Software Quality Engineer with a decade of experience shaping CI/CD and quality practices at Red Hat, where he progressed from Associate to Principal between 2016 and 2025. He specializes in cloud-native test automation and deployment pipelines, contributing to notable open-source work such as improving Argo‑CD-based AppStudio deployments and OpenShift CI integrations. Josef blends hands-on DevOps scripting, webhook-driven notifications and quality dashboards with leadership in cross-functional engineering teams. His background in ETL development and a master's in corporate management give him a rare mix of technical depth and process-oriented product thinking. Based in South Moravia, he is focused on making reliability measurable and operable across complex distributed platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Corporate management and economics, Master's degree, Corporate management and economics at Brno University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer systems and data processing, Bachelor's degree, Computer systems and data processing at Masaryk University Brno
English, German
Github Skills (13)
sh10
automation10
kubernetes10
script10
automations10
openshift10
shell10
scripting10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
webhooks9
bash8
yaml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-appstudio/infra-deployments
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
This repository is an initial set of Argo-CD-based deployments of AppStudio components to a cluster, plus a script to bootstrap Argo CD onto that cluster (to drive these Argo-CD-based deployments, via OpenShift GitOps).
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Josef focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and deployment processes within the repository. They implemented webhooks and updated scripts to send notifications after tests finished in OpenShift CI. Additionally, they added a quality dashboard and made updates to variables used within the deployment scripts. These changes involved modifying configuration files and setting up routes for various components of the application.
argocdopenshiftkubernetesdeploymentscluster
jkopriva/jbosstools-integration-tests
Mar 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:503 pushes, 107 branches, 3 comments in 5 years 7 months
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