Martin Sivak
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Sivak is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 18 years’ experience building and bridging virtualization and container ecosystems at Red Hat, currently focusing on real-time and high-performance OpenShift. He is a polyglot developer comfortable in C, C++, Java, Python, Go and Rust, with deep Linux expertise and a Red Hat Certified Architect credential. His contributions to flagship open-source projects like oVirt/vdsm and oVirt Engine show hands‑on backend work in virtualization, I/O tunables and API enhancements, while earlier contributions to the Nitrogen web framework reveal attention to data handling and server internals. A seasoned team lead and instructor, he has taught Python at universities and led virtualization and ecosystem engineering efforts within Red Hat. Outside core engineering he applies systems thinking to embedded development (AVR/STM32, some Verilog) and even runs a photography and color‑management venture, reflecting a practical blend of technical depth and creative precision.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ing., Inteligent systems, Ing., Inteligent systems at Brno University of Technology
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Github Skills (28)
erlang10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
websocket10
java10
ovirt10
javas10
scheduling10
api10
virtualization10
web-framework10
linux9
encoding9
sql9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/vdsm
Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
The Virtual Desktop Server Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the `vdsm` project, focusing on enhancing the Virtual Desktop Server Manager. Their work included fixing character set conversion logic in hooks.py to improve test compatibility, adding features like balloon_min to VM.getVmBalloonInfo, and implementing functionalities such as setMOMPolicyParameters for MOM policy tuning. They also refactored code, improved API calls, and added support for IO tunables, demonstrating a deep understanding of the project's architecture and functionality.
vdivmsvirtual-desktopwindowselectron
oVirt/ovirt-engine
May 2013 - Aug 2018
The oVirt Engine virtualization manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:226 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Martin's commits primarily focused on enhancing the oVirt Engine's back-end functionality. They implemented features to get, save and display HBA (iSCSI, FC) device information, add CPU shares, and set MoM policy when a host comes online. The user also added a new command to shut down a host via SSH. Additionally, they were involved in refactoring and adding enhancements to various API endpoints for the VM and Host entities.
defoldlibvirtovirtvirtualizationovirt-engine
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