Peter Zaoral
Red Hat Senior Software Engineer IBM Software Developer
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Zaoral is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native identity and access management, currently working on Keycloak at IBM after an internal transition from Red Hat. He combines backend development, DevOps and QA expertise—contributing to Keycloak core features, Windows build fixes, Vault keystore support, and UI/OTP improvements using PatternFly. Based in Brno, he has progressed through engineering and quality roles at Red Hat, bringing a pragmatic systems mindset honed earlier as a university sysadmin automating Windows environments with PowerShell and Chocolatey. An open-source advocate, Peter has hands-on experience shipping fixes and operator-focused enhancements for widely used IAM infrastructure. His academic background in service science and computer networks complements his practical focus on reliable, maintainable cloud-native deployments. Colleagues rely on him for bridging developer tooling, platform stability and polished user-facing touches that often go unnoticed.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnázium Jána Hollého, TrnavaMaster's degree, Service Science, Management, and Engineering, Master's degree, Master's degree, Service Science, Management, and Engineering, Master's degree at Masaryk University Brno
English, Slovak
Github Skills (18)
keycloak10
saml10
oid10
java10
javas10
junit10
jtest10
cicd9
front-end-development9
quarkus9
docker8
html8
css8
dockers8
javascript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
keycloak/keycloak
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:292 reviews, 12 commits, 66 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter Zaoral contributed to Keycloak by fixing UI tests, fixing broken HoKTest and improving the OTP login form, along with the overall look and feel by updating resources with PatternFly icons. He also refined Ingress settings, and addressed issues with the kcadm.bat and kcreg.bat scripts regarding environment variables and file paths. Additionally, the user worked on Windows-related build issues and code refactoring, and on Keycloak Vault keystore support.
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
Pepo48/pullrequest_test
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:100 PRs, 26 pushes, 32 branches in 8 months
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