Matej Vasek
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatej Vasek is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience building and hardening back-end systems, currently contributing at Red Hat from Brno. He has a strong open-source footprint across prominent cloud-native projects—Podman, Quarkus, Knative, CloudEvents, and Buildpacks—focusing on bug fixes, API/CLI features, testing, and reliability improvements. Matej excels at bridging developer tooling and runtime concerns, having added features like a custom --docker-host flag, CLI subcommands and shell completions, and robustness fixes for CloudEvent handling. His work shows attention to detail (nil checks, lint fixes, sub-second time resolution) and a knack for pragmatic refactors that reduce runtime errors.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Masaryk University Brno
Github Skills (33)
json10
api-rest10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
cloudnativepg10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
cloudevents10
dockers10
java10
javas10
occi10
junit10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
knative/func
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Knative Functions client API and CLI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:721 reviews, 230 commits, 706 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matej contributed to the development of the `knative/func` CLI and API. Their commits involved implementing a `list` sub-command, which lists deployed service functions. The user also addressed issues in setting the namespace and made code refactoring changes due to project relocations. Furthermore, the user added a describe sub-command, providing detailed information about the service functions, and added shell completion scripts.
cliknative
cloudevents/sdk-java
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Java SDK for CloudEvents
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:62 reviews, 9 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matej primarily focused on integrating and testing different Java frameworks (Resteasy, Spring Jersey) for CloudEvents SDK. Their contributions include adding tests for various scenarios, fixing version mismatches, and splitting tests into sub-modules. The user also addressed issues related to sub-second resolution of the `time` attribute and updated the Quarkus example, demonstrating contributions to different areas of the project. They also worked on improvements related to the JSON format, and the http binding for binary events.
cloudeventsjavajava-apikafkasdk-java
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