Marek Grác
Research Fellow (Principal) at Phalanx
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolMarek Grác is a research-focused principal engineer and educator with 19 years of experience bridging academia and industry from Brno, Czechia. At Red Hat he leads applied research and previously drove a major migration and modernization of the High Availability Fence Agent project, shepherding 5,000+ commits and dozens of contributors. He also founded Phalanx to apply NLP to customer experience for Slavic languages, combining product integration with practical consulting. An experienced mentor and advisor (100+ diploma theses), he teaches applied machine learning and LLM courses while keeping open-source contributions—such as enhancing ClusterLabs resource agents—for reliable production systems. Marek’s profile blends deep systems engineering, computational linguistics research, and a talent for translating complex technical ideas to diverse audiences.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws - LLM, Information and Communication Technology Law, Master of Laws - LLM, Information and Communication Technology Law at Masaryk UniversityPhD, Computational Linguistics, PhD, Computational Linguistics at Masaryk University BrnoMgr (Master), Informatics & Computational linguistics, Mgr (Master), Informatics & Computational linguistics at Masarykova univerzitaGJH
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Github Skills (23)
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
script10
cluster-manager10
sh10
cluster-api10
shell10
clustering10
mysql9
apache9
postgresql9
samba9
openldap9
xml7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/resource-agents
Aug 2006 - Mar 2011
Combined repository of OCF agents from the RHCS and Linux-HA projects
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:79 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily contributed to the development of resource agents within the clusterlabs/resource-agents repository. Their work involved fixing bugs, adding new resource agents for services like MySQL, Apache, OpenLDAP, PostgreSQL, and Samba, and improving existing agents by incorporating options for command-line arguments and implementing features like handling multiline PID files and support for stop/kill timeouts. The contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of resource agents within the context of a cluster management system. The user also simplified existing scripts and introduced general utility functions.
linuxagentsocf
Phalanx-Ai/transformer-psc
Jul 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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