Martin Peřina
Principal Software Engineer, In-Vehicle Operating System
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Peřina is a Principal Software Engineer based in Brno with over two decades in IT and 13 years of hands-on engineering experience focused on backend systems, databases and Linux-based infrastructures. At Red Hat he progressed from senior engineer to manager and now leads in-vehicle OS development, blending systems-level expertise with people leadership. A long-time contributor and maintainer in the oVirt virtualization ecosystem, he has improved critical host management, fencing and migration metrics in projects like vdsm and ovirt-engine. He is comfortable across Java/J2EE, Oracle/MySQL and Linux administration, and has a track record of turning operational insight into robust error-handling and storage-management features. Notably, his contributions to kdump reporting and smarter fencing behavior show a practical focus on reliability and crash diagnostics that often flies under the radar.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnázium Josefa Kainara, HlučínIng., Computer Science, Ing., Computer Science at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Czech, English, Slovak, Russian
Github Skills (13)
ovirt10
javas10
api10
backend10
python10
apidoc10
virtualization10
java10
postgresql9
debugging9
database-management8
performance-optimization8
system-administration7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/ovirt-engine
Mar 2013 - Jan 2023
The oVirt Engine virtualization manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 237 reviews, 1254 commits in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Martin focused on improving the core functionality of the oVirt Engine. They addressed critical issues, adding error handling for SMTP server STARTTLS support in the tools. They also improved storage domain management and performed code cleanup tasks in the core, contributing to overall system stability and robustness. In addition, the user has added, extended and improved functionality related to a database component of the system.
ovirtvirtualization
oVirt/vdsm
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the `vdsm` project, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to host management and fencing functionality. They implemented features to gather and report kdump status, which is critical for host crash analysis. Their work also included updates to the fencing mechanism, allowing for more intelligent behavior based on storage domain lease status and improving the API. Furthermore, the user added metrics for incoming and outgoing migrations.
server-managervirtual-desktopovirt
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