Pavel Šturc
Senior Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolPavel Šturc is a Senior Software Quality Engineer based in Brno with a decade of experience ensuring reliable cloud-native releases, particularly for OpenShift at Red Hat. He blends hands-on test development in Go (Ginkgo) and Node.js with ownership of CI/CD tooling across Jenkins, Prow, GitHub Actions and Tekton, and still codes automation for release pipelines and infrastructure. Pavel has moved from test authoring and release coordination to leading a QE team responsible for system-wide quality and backlog governance, while maintaining the hands-on upkeep of CI and QE tools. His open-source contributions to prominent OpenShift repos show a pragmatic DevOps focus—writing shell automation, improving Argo CD deployments, and tuning E2E pipelines for stability and macOS compatibility. With a background in computational linguistics, he brings analytical rigor and a habit of scripting repetitive tasks to streamline complex release workflows.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics, Bachelor's degree, Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics at Masaryk University Brno
Czech, English, German
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Github Skills (29)
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
e2e-test10
cd10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
openshift10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-appstudio/infra-deployments
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository is an initial set of Argo-CD-based deployments of AppStudio components to a cluster, plus a script to bootstrap Argo CD onto that cluster (to drive these Argo-CD-based deployments, via OpenShift GitOps).
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 24 commits, 58 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pavel's primary focus within the repository was on automating and improving the deployment infrastructure for AppStudio components. Their commits include modifications to CI/CD scripts, specifically for the OpenShift environment, and additions for setting up and integrating SPI (Service Provider Interface) within the E2E testing pipeline. The user also made updates to configuration files related to environment variables, secrets, and image repositories for different components, and they contributed to increasing timeout settings for the E2E tests. Moreover, the user implemented changes to enhance compatibility and stability for MacOS users.
argocdopenshiftkubernetesdeploymentscluster
psturc-org/hacbs-test-project
Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:100 PRs, 76 pushes, 265 branches in 4 months
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