Michal Schmidt
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolMichal Schmidt is a seasoned senior software engineer with 26 years of experience, currently driving systems and tooling work at Red Hat from Brno. His background in cybernetics and automation informs a pragmatic, systems-level approach to back-end and build infrastructure problems, with notable open-source contributions improving build systems (sockperf) and core utilities (eudev). He focuses on performance, memory efficiency and maintainable configuration—refactoring hashmaps, mempools and build scripts to make complex C projects easier to develop and debug. Comfortable as both an automation/build-and-release engineer and a back-end developer, he bridges developer ergonomics and low-level reliability. Colleagues rely on him for quiet, high-impact improvements that reduce technical debt and speed developer workflows.
26 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Inženýr (Ing.), Cybernetics, Automation, and Measurement, Inženýr (Ing.), Cybernetics, Automation, and Measurement at Brno University of TechnologyCybernetics, Automation, and Measurement, Cybernetics, Automation, and Measurement at Vysoké učení technické v Brně
Github Skills (14)
c1710
autoconf10
system10
configuration-management10
memory-management10
c1110
system-programming10
sys10
build-automation10
automake10
cprogramming-language9
bash9
c-language9
script9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Mellanox/sockperf
Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
Network Benchmarking Utility
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michal focused on improving the build and configuration processes of the `sockperf` project. They introduced options to the `autogen.sh` script for development and debugging. Additionally, they modified `configure.ac` to utilize a better approach for adding compiler flags, and created macros to manage boolean arguments. These changes suggest an emphasis on enhancing the project's build system and configuration management.
benchmarking
eudev-project/eudev
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Repository for eudev development
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily focused on optimizing the `hashmap` implementation within the `eudev` repository, likely improving the efficiency of various system utilities. Their contributions involved refactoring the hashmap structure by introducing `hash_ops` and subsequently splitting the mempool implementation to enhance memory usage. They also added a zeroing allocation function for mempool tiles, improving overall functionality. Additionally, the user implemented a `path_compare()` and `path_equal()` functions and applied several code cleanup changes, including the use of `log_*_errno()`.
systemdlinuxmintxenlinux-distributionjavascript
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