Martin Kopec
Associate Manager, Engineering
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Kopec is an engineering leader with a decade of experience growing through technical and quality roles at Red Hat, now serving as Associate Manager, Engineering in Prague. He moved from an intern to lead roles by focusing on practical, impact-driven initiatives that improve both code and team outcomes. Martin combines hands-on test automation and backend work—contributing to OpenStack Tempest—with meticulous documentation updates for widely used projects like devstack. As former PTL for OpenStack Quality Assurance, he blends open-source stewardship with corporate engineering processes to raise delivery standards across upstream and downstream projects. Trained in information technology and information management at Brno University of Technology, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic management style and a belief that determination turns possibility into results. An unexpected detail: he started his career parsing XML for research projects, showing a long-standing attention to transforming messy data into usable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Faculty of Business and Management, Master's degree Faculty of Business and Management at Brno University of Technology
Slovak, English, German
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
pest10
openstack10
temper10
tempo10
python10
documentation10
test-automation10
ubuntu9
rest-api9
rs8
devops7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/tempest
Sep 2016 - Sep 2022
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:100 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin's commits primarily involve migrating identity API clients to the tempest.lib library, implementing unit tests for them, and adding unit tests for various other clients such as credentials, domains, encryption types, snapshots, quotas, and roles within the Tempest framework. These contributions aimed to improve the testing infrastructure and ensure comprehensive coverage for the OpenStack project. Furthermore, the user worked on defining and refactoring code related to identity clients within the test suite and added a series of fixes.
openstacktesting
openstack/devstack
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:28 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributes to the repository's documentation, focusing on refining existing guides and tutorials to improve user clarity. Their contributions include updating documentation to reflect the latest Ubuntu version used in CI, removing outdated references, and clarifying instructions for adding sudo privileges. They also removed support for OpenSUSE and updated documentation for cirros image versions, highlighting their role in keeping the documentation current and accurate.
openstacktesting
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