Martin Basti
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Basti is a Principal Software Engineer based in Brno with 12 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native build and identity systems using Python and Go. He designs and implements trusted build pipelines and Kubernetes controllers at Red Hat, drawing on deep expertise in container build orchestration, GitOps deployments, and Tekton-based CI/CD. A long-time FreeIPA and dnspython contributor, he blends protocol-level DNS and Kerberos work with pragmatic backend engineering to solve integration and deployment pain points. Passionate about clean code and open source, he has repeatedly owned services from design through production, including an operator-backed manifests push service and konflux-ci. Notably, his contributions include practical tooling to configure Firefox for Kerberos and fixes to core DNS handling—examples of his attention to interoperability and correctness.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Networks and Communication, Master's degree, Computer Networks and Communication at Brno University of Technology
Slovak, English, Czech
Github Skills (8)
ldap10
dns10
dnspython10
python10
back-end-development10
kerberos9
dnssec8
asyncio4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
freeipa/freeipa
Oct 2013 - Jul 2017
Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1032 commits, 562 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily involve back-end development, focusing on features related to configuring and integrating with various tools, most notably Firefox. They implemented options within the `ipa-client-install` tool to configure Firefox, enabling Kerberos credential usage within the IPA domain. Furthermore, they introduced functionality for managing external LDAP/AD trust configurations and provided tools to manage DNS records. The user also fixed several existing issues to ensure smooth operation of existing functionality.
policyactive-directory-integrationpampythonfreeipa
rthalley/dnspython
Feb 2014 - Jul 2017
a powerful DNS toolkit for python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 4 PRs, 38 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to the dnspython project by implementing and fixing several issues related to the DNS protocol. They added functionality to copy DNS name objects and fixed improper escaping in the `Name.to_unicode()` method. Further contributions include fixing an issue with NSEC3PARAM and addressing a typo in the resolver code, demonstrating a focus on code correctness and stability. The user's work primarily involved Python code and focused on improving the core functionality of the DNS toolkit.
dns-over-tlspythontrioednsasyncio
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