Michal Špaček
Package Maintainer at Red Hat
Prague Metropolitan Area Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Špaček is a seasoned software engineer and package maintainer with 21 years of experience, currently working at Red Hat and maintaining Perl-related packages in the Fedora Project. He has deep systems and backend expertise, contributing to C/C++ and Perl codebases as well as medical device software, DICOM libraries, and Linux-based solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented DWG format support and fixes in the LibreDWG project, showing attention to legacy formats and file-spec corner cases. His background blends hands-on engineering with program coordination—he coordinated Wikidata/tech programs at Wikimedia Czech Republic—bringing both technical depth and community-facing experience. Based in Prague, Michal is pragmatic about reliability and interoperability, often tackling obscure format/version issues and long-lived packaging concerns that keep ecosystems healthy.
21 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Control Theory specialization, Control Theory specialization at SPŠE Frenštát pod Radhoštěm
Github Skills (6)
c1710
c1110
cad10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
LibreDWG/libredwg
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 120 commits, 210 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily contributed to the development of the libredwg library by implementing features related to DWG file format support. Their work included fixing version-specific issues, adding support for new header variables (AXISMODE, AXISUNIT, OSMODE, and other AC2.10-AC1009 variables), and adding and correcting pre-R13 entities. They also removed obsolete comments and made improvements related to thickness and elevation and worked on entity IDs.
nightlyhookscaddwg
michal-josef-spacek/Map-Tube-Nanjing
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
Interface to the Nanjing Metro Map.
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 4 tags in 10 years 2 months
metro-mapmapmetroopenstreetmap
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