Michal Tóth
Senior Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolMichal Tóth is a Senior Quality Engineer based in Brno with nine years of experience specializing in test automation, messaging systems, and cloud-native operations. At Red Hat since 2013, he progressed from hands-on test development for brokers like Apache Artemis and ActiveMQ to leading QE sub-teams, shaping test infrastructure and QA program decisions. He blends backend and DevOps skills—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Strimzi Kafka Operator—focusing on stabilizing system tests, automating resource handling, and modernizing test frameworks. Comfortable with Java ecosystems and Linux server administration, he pairs technical depth with mentoring and hiring experience. Collected from a Masaryk University IT background, Michal brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and operational fitness that quietly elevates distributed messaging at scale.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Masaryk University Brno
Github Skills (12)
javas10
kubernetes10
kafka10
system-testing10
devops10
java10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
kubernetes-operator9
kube-controller-manager9
yaml7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator
Jul 2020 - May 2022
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:258 reviews, 30 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily focused on system test improvements and enhancements, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture. The contributions include fixing flaky tests and addressing issues related to logging and Kafka configuration within the system tests. Additionally, the user implemented changes supporting the alteration and manipulation of resources like topics and deployments within the system, highlighting their experience with automation and operational aspects of the project. They also updated test framework to work with new version of dependencies.
kafka-streamsapache-kafkadcosdata-streamsdata-stream
msgqe/ansible-broker-clusters
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
Playbook repository, to be renamed! Ansible clustered deployments for MSGQE
Contributions:5 PRs, 96 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
renamedansiblekubernetesdeploymentsplaybook
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