Michal Hrušecký
Head Of Hardware Development Department at CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Hrušecký is a pragmatic technology leader with 17 years of hands-on experience in embedded Linux, networking and open source, currently heading hardware development for the Turris project in Prague. He blends management and cross-team coordination with deep technical involvement—still contributing to OpenWrt builds, CI pipelines, and C++/shell tooling while guiding product priorities and partner engagements. Michal’s contributions span critical patches and stability fixes in projects like OpenWrt, LEDE and Moses MT, reflecting a focus on robustness and platform compatibility. He operates a sophisticated personal infrastructure (openSUSE, KVM, SaltStack) and experiments with SBCs, ESP32 and RISC-V at home, underscoring a lifelong tinkerer mentality. Comfortable switching between firmware, backend and ops, he pairs developer instincts with customer-driven decision making to deliver reliable embedded networking products.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Linguistics, Left without degree, Bachelor's degree, Applied Linguistics, Left without degree at Univerzita Karlova v PrazeBc, Informatics, Bc, Informatics at Charles University
English, Czech
Github Skills (51)
machine-translation10
c-language10
scripting10
patch10
net10
wireless10
hostapd10
usb10
linux-kernel10
openvpn10
makefile10
networking10
perl10
c1110
c1710
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Jan 2018 - Jun 2024
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 PRs, 20 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily contributes to the OpenWrt project, which is focused on embedded systems and networking. Their work includes updating hostapd, the software for managing Wi-Fi access points, as well as modifying the build system to include features like checksums for package metadata. The user also backported a crucial patch related to COMPHY reset on Marvell Armada 3720, a significant fix for USB 3.0 functionality. Furthermore, the user split out configuration parsing code in OpenVPN for reusability.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
openwrt/packages
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Community maintained packages for OpenWrt. Documentation for submitting pull requests is in CONTRIBUTING.md
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 66 commits, 47 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily contributed to the LuCI app for LXC in OpenWrt, enhancing its functionality to handle container images and architecture detection. The user implemented features such as allowing versioned images, downloading available distributions, and using uname -m for architecture determination. Additionally, the user worked on improving the CI/CD pipeline by adding helper functions and exporting variables for CI tests. The user also updated and added testing for MariaDB.
pull-requestsopenwrtstudio
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