Martin Slemr
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarMartin Slemr is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat based in Brno with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and test automation. He specializes in backend development, analytics, and host-metric collection for large open-source platforms, with notable contributions to ManageIQ and AWX (the upstream project for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform). Martin blends hands-on engineering—writing Ruby/RSpec tests and implementing provider validation and migration logic—with a strong QA mindset that improves system reliability. His work on ManageIQ’s UI testing framework and AWX’s analytics/host metrics highlights a focus on observability and data-driven platform behavior. A pragmatic collaborator, he contributes both bug fixes and architectural improvements across projects used widely in enterprise automation. Outside of Red Hat, he remains active in open source as a developer for projects such as World From Space and Orbis, signaling a curiosity for geospatial and systems integration domains.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (33)
ruby-rails10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
rspec10
rails10
analytics10
ruby10
manageiq10
automation10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
test-automation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 45 PRs, 207 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the ManageIQ platform. They developed a class method for `http_proxy_uri` and implemented its usage within an instance method, which was crucial for provider validation. Other contributions included skipping unspecified discovery types and adding comments and options for inventory collection builders. These commits indicate a focus on enhancing the platform's core infrastructure and provider integration.
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ansible/awx
Oct 2019 - Jan 2024
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 22 PRs, 86 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the backend of the AWX project, focusing on analytics and host metric functionalities. Their work involved modifying analytics collectors, implementing host metric migration, and creating the Host Metrics List API. The user also integrated settings for subscription usage models and made changes related to compliance computations within the system. The contributions demonstrate a focus on data collection, reporting, and system configuration within the Ansible Automation Platform.
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