Martin Mágr
Principal Software Engineer - Product Owner at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Mágr is a Principal Software Engineer and Product Owner with 17 years of experience specializing in Go and Python, currently leading OpenStack workloads and observability efforts at Red Hat from Brno. He designs and ships cloud monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Ceilometer, collectd and AMQP, and has deep hands-on expertise packaging and deploying services in containers and Kubernetes. A long-time contributor to high-profile OpenStack projects (Kolla, Packstack, TripleO) he blends DevOps, backend engineering and automation to harden deployments and improve health checks, logging and CI pipelines. Martin’s work often focuses on the less-visible but critical plumbing—container build hygiene, database maintenance automation, and monitoring plugin integration—bringing pragmatic reliability to large cloud fleets.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (Ing.), Computer graphics and multimedia, Master's degree (Ing.), Computer graphics and multimedia at Brno University of Technology Faculty of Information TechnologyComputer technology, Computer technology at SPS Chomutov
English, Czech, Slovak
Github Skills (29)
podman10
kubernetes10
puppeteer10
docker10
python10
puppet10
mysql10
centos10
configuration-management10
bash10
collectd10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
openstack10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Mar 2015 - Nov 2022
Heat templates for deploying OpenStack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:215 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily focused on automating and enhancing the deployment and monitoring capabilities of the OpenStack environment. They introduced and modified cron jobs for database maintenance tasks such as purging deleted rows for Nova and Cinder. The user implemented IPv6 support for RabbitMQ and integrated logging and monitoring agents (Fluentd, Sensu-Client) within the CI pipeline. Furthermore, the user adapted container health checks for built-in podman and improved the output format for container health checks.
deployingheatopenshiftopenstack
redhat-openstack/packstack
Mar 2013 - Mar 2016
Install utility to deploy OpenStack on multiple hosts. This is the GitHub mirror for https://opendev.org/x/packstack.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:297 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the Packstack project, which is an OpenStack installation utility. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, such as preventing unnecessary questions and ensuring proper functioning. The user also made changes to the underlying infrastructure, including supporting and managing different backends such as MySQL/MariaDB. This demonstrates experience with both the core application logic of the utility and the operational aspects of managing a complex deployment.
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