Lukáš Král
Software Developer at Strimzi
Brno - město, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolLukáš Král is a pragmatic software developer with six years of experience specializing in backend and DevOps for cloud-native systems, currently based in Brno. He is a long-term maintainer on the high-profile Strimzi project, contributing to Kafka-on-Kubernetes deployments, testing infrastructure and refactors that improve maintainability and deployment reliability. His career progressed through multiple engineering levels at Red Hat, where he focused on software quality before moving to IBM, giving him a strong grounding in production-grade testing, CI/CD and observability. Comfortable crossing the boundaries between code and infrastructure, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and operational thinking to distributed systems. An uncommon strength is his track record of improving test setups and deployment processes—work that often prevents issues before they reach production.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Palacký University in Olomouc
Github Skills (11)
javas10
kubernetes10
kafka10
devops10
back-end-development10
java10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
maven9
openshift8
yaml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1600 reviews, 343 commits, 682 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Lukáš made several contributions, including removing tests, fixing quota deletion, and implementing changes in the Kafka setup. They worked on the implementation and setup of testing and also made efforts for improving the deployment process. Furthermore, they contributed to several refactoring efforts to improve readability and maintainability of the code. This implies they worked on both the backend and the infrastructure management of the project.
kafka-streamsapache-kafkadcosdata-streamsdata-stream
im-konge/test-clients
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Kafka clients used in Strimzi system tests
Contributions:99 pushes, 139 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
kafka-clientssystem-testsstrimzikafkaclients
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