Ladislav Smola
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolLadislav Smola is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading backend and platform-focused work at Red Hat from Brno. He specializes in cloud and telemetry systems, contributing substantial improvements to OpenStack projects (AWX, Ceilometer, Horizon) and enhancing Ruby cloud libraries like Fog with Ironic and Nova support. His work blends backend engineering, data collection/analytics, and pragmatic DevOps—evident in additions for workflow/license telemetry, SNMP-based hardware discovery, and test-data tooling. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he’s added frontend visualizations (D3/Rickshaw) and testing documentation alongside deep backend fixes, showing versatility across the stack. Educated at VUT Brno, he pairs long-term enterprise experience with active open-source impact on widely used cloud automation and telemetry projects.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bc., Information Technologies, Bc., Information Technologies at VUT Brno
English, Czech
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Github Skills (48)
data-visualizations10
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
snmp10
javascript10
postgresql10
cloud-computing10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
snmpd10
data-visualisation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-classic
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Classic UI of ManageIQ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:211 commits, 31 PRs, 90 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ladislav primarily contributed to the back-end of the ManageIQ Classic UI, focusing on fixing bugs, enhancing the user interface, and adding new features to the backend system. The user implemented changes related to handling load balancer status, cloud volume management, and network topology view. Their work involved modifications to controllers and core helper files, demonstrating a focus on improving the core functionality and features of the ManageIQ UI.
manageiq
fog/fog
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 47 PRs, 144 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ladislav primarily contributed to enhancing the Fog Ruby cloud services library, focusing on OpenStack integration. Their work included adding support for OpenStack Ironic, implementing maintenance mode functionalities, and adding Nova service support by developing API requests. They also addressed issues related to query parameters and path handling within the OpenStack image service, improving the overall functionality and stability of the library. Further work included refactoring to a unified interface for list methods across multiple services, improving usability.
cloud-servicesruby
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