Luboš Kocman
OpenSUSE Leap And OpenSUSE Leap Micro Release Manager
Mikulov, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolLuboš Kocman is an experienced release and technical project manager with 14 years building and shipping enterprise Linux distributions, currently serving as Release Manager for openSUSE Leap and Leap Micro. He bridges community and enterprise development—leading builds, openQA integration, WSL enablement and the move to the Agama installer—while collaborating closely with both SUSE engineers and volunteer contributors. His background includes deep release engineering at Red Hat where he drove modularity, JIRA-based release workflows and DevOps practices across RHEL product lines. Beyond core engineering, he contributes packaging, migration tooling and branding for Leap, creates educational content for users, and coordinates conference outreach and sponsorship locally. Based in Mikulov, Czechia, he combines hands-on tooling work with community engagement, reflecting a career-long passion for open source that began in secondary school.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology in Economy, Information Technology in Economy at Business Academy in ZnojmoCancelled - No degree, Information and Control Technologies (remote study), Cancelled - No degree, Information and Control Technologies (remote study) at Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Github Skills (172)
pair-programming10
ruby10
ubuntu10
markdown10
tumbleweed10
debian10
centos10
obs10
archlinux10
rpm10
appimage10
rails10
distributions10
installer10
fedora10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
lkocman/openSUSE-release-process
Feb 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:44 pushes, 27 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 1 month
lkocman/artwork
Jun 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years
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