Oliver Gondza
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno - město, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolOliver Gondza is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, now leading delivery and quality efforts at Red Hat from Brno. He blends pragmatic engineering with automation and DevOps expertise, having driven reliability improvements across Jenkins core and many high-profile plugins and test harnesses. A prolific open-source maintainer and contributor, his work spans test automation, pipeline tooling, remoting robustness and OpenStack SDK fixes—often focusing on classloading, diagnostics and maintainable refactors. Known for a simplicity-first approach to engineering ("powered by laziness"), he improves developer experience by reducing complexity and automating repetitive work. Outside of day-to-day role he contributes changelogs and documentation, reflecting an eye for clear communication as well as code.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Masaryk University Brno
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Github Skills (47)
unit-testing10
website-development10
selenium10
groovy10
testing10
plugin-development10
test-reporting10
selenium-ide10
gerrit10
java10
cicd10
javas10
automation10
junit10
openstack10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness
Mar 2014 - Sep 2022
Acceptance tests cases for Jenkins and its plugins based on selenium and docker.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 1212 commits, 538 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to improving the test suite, modifying the test logic, and fixing build issues within the Jenkins Acceptance Test Harness. Their work involved debugging build failures, refining existing tests, adding checks, and refactoring code related to the core test infrastructure, including handling user accounts, and validating results. The contributions focused on ensuring the reliability and maintainability of the automated test framework.
jenkinscasesacceptance-teststestingdocker
jenkinsci/parameterized-trigger-plugin
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Jenkins parameterized-trigger plugin
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on improving the `parameterized-trigger-plugin` by addressing issues related to build parameter handling and artifact management. Their contributions include unifying logging prefixes across the codebase and resolving issues with archived properties files. The user also refactored test cases and updated the project to avoid relying on default artifact manager implementations, enhancing code maintainability and test coverage.
jenkinsjenkins-builderjenkins-pluginjenkins-triggerjenkins-api-plugin
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