Martin Kosek
Director, Engineering at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Kosek is an experienced engineering director with 15 years of hands-on and leadership experience building identity and IAM solutions at Red Hat, currently overseeing a global team of 70+ engineers for the Identity Management suite. He combines deep backend engineering roots in Python, C, LDAP and Kerberos with a track record of scaling teams and products from upstream open-source projects like FreeIPA into enterprise-grade, hybrid-cloud and PaaS-integrated offerings. Known for driving organizational change, he led Agile scaling efforts, role realignments, and the transformation of on-prem identity products toward SaaS. His engineering pedigree includes low-level reliability work—fixing memory leaks and security vulnerabilities in FreeIPA—that informed his product and architectural decisions at scale. Comfortable in cross-functional customer-facing roles, he pairs technical judgment with direct engagement on escalations and capital investment decisions. Based in Brno, he brings a rare blend of firmware/FPGA roots and enterprise software leadership that helps bridge system-level reliability with large-scale cloud identity services.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Systems, Master's Degree, Computer Systems at Brno University of Technology
Czech, English, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (22)
debug10
python10
error-handling10
authentication9
ldap9
security9
c119
user-authentication9
memory-management9
c179
refactoring8
openldap8
user-management8
refactor8
identity-management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
freeipa/freeipa
Jan 2011 - Feb 2017
Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:885 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the back-end of the project, focusing on improving error handling, handling memory leaks, and addressing security vulnerabilities within the FreeIPA system. Their work involved modifying Python and C code to enhance stability, reduce the risk of memory corruption, and fix potential security holes in the codebase. The user also added new tests, implemented code refactoring and fixed build problems. Their contributions directly improved the robustness and reliability of the FreeIPA backend systems.
policyactive-directory-integrationpampythonfreeipa
freeipa/freeipa-demo
Dec 2017 - May 2021
Tools for building or managing FreeIPA demo
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
freeipa
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