Peter Vrabec
Senior Manager at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Vrabec is a senior engineering leader with 18 years of experience currently heading a 50+ engineer global security organization at Red Hat, driving OS-level innovations for the open hybrid cloud. He blends hands-on contributions to open-source security tooling—including notable work on OpenSCAP’s CPE, OVAL, XML validation and CVE integration—with a leadership focus on Agile maturity and operational excellence. Peter specializes in transforming teams into self-sustaining, high-velocity units that treat continuous improvement as a core requirement rather than an afterthought. His background spans individual contributor roles in packaging and security engineering up through management, giving him deep empathy for both code-level detail and large-scale program delivery. Based in Brno, Czechia, he leverages dual master’s training in IT and Business to align technical direction with measurable business outcomes. An unusual strength is his ability to ship low-level security features while also scaling engineering culture across a broad product portfolio.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Faculty of Business and Management, Master, Faculty of Business and Management at Brno University of Technology
English, Slovak
Github Skills (4)
c-programming10
xml-parsing10
xml9
code-optimization8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSCAP/openscap
Mar 2009 - Mar 2014
NIST Certified SCAP 1.2 toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:692 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the OpenSCAP project by modifying and extending the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) code, example applications for Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE), and other APIs for features related to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) integration. These changes included adjustments to API implementations, performance optimizations, and the integration of new features. The contributions cover several components of the openSCAP project including changes to XML validation, addition of the handling of an OVAL directives model and the implementation of the functionality for the anyxml element in OVAL content.
nistdata-streamxccdfovalsecurity
pvrabec/nss
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:443 branches in 1 day
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