Martin Kouba
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc.
Czech Republic, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarMartin Kouba is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently working at Red Hat and based between the Czech Republic and Switzerland. He specializes in backend Java development and CDI integration, with deep contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as Quarkus, WildFly and Apache Camel Quarkus. His work spans scheduler and templating improvements in Quarkus (including Qute), GraalVM native-image fixes, and robust CDI producer/observer implementations—demonstrating both runtime and deployment expertise. Colleagues rely on him to resolve subtle assignability and concurrency issues and to design programmatic alternatives to framework patterns. Martin combines practical bug-fixing discipline with architecture-aware refactoring, often improving test coverage and cross-module compatibility. Outside obvious code contributions, he brings an integrator’s mindset that smooths the bridge between Java EE standards and cloud-native runtimes.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
unit-testing10
deploying10
integrate10
javaee10
template-engine10
apache-camel10
integrations10
java10
javas10
code-generation10
quarkus10
cdi10
weld10
runtime-environment10
annotations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thorntail/thorntail
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Source code for the Thorntail project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 95 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the integration of CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) with the Thorntail project's configuration, involving the creation of a new `ConfigValueProducer` class and associated tests. These changes include making `ConfigValue` a qualifier and replacing the use of `ConfigExtension` with producers. The user also updated test files and added a new annotation, `ConfigValue`.
javathorntailmavenmicroservices
quarkusio/quarkus
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2181 reviews, 1795 commits, 1792 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Martin made significant contributions to the Quarkus project, focusing on enhancing the scheduler API and addressing assignability issues within the Qute templating engine. They implemented a programmatic alternative to scheduled methods, improved hierarchy indexing for resolving assignability issues, and fixed issues related to generated value resolvers. Additionally, the user worked on fixing a concurrency issue and introduced new capabilities in the Qute and Quartz modules.
kubernetesquarkusjavareactivecloud-native
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