Petr Šabata
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPetr Šabata is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Zurich with about 15 years of hands-on experience leading product and platform engineering for enterprise Linux and in-vehicle operating systems. At Red Hat he progressed from package maintainer to area lead, driving release management, automotive feature development, CI/CD for upstream-to-downstream propagation, and security and performance evaluation across Enterprise Linux offerings. He combines deep low-level systems expertise—demonstrated by maintenance and usability improvements to iproute2 networking utilities—with strong cross-functional leadership of product owners and engineering teams. Known for building pragmatic automation around packaging, deployment and bootstrap processes, he favors solutions that reduce operational footprint while improving quality. Pragmatic, detail-oriented and a self-described "not actually a real cat" on GitHub, he pairs long-term stewardship of critical open-source components with an appetite for tackling complex integration challenges.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
No degree, Computer Science, No degree, Computer Science at Masarykova univerzita Fakulta informatikyHigh School Diploma, Automation Engineering, High School Diploma, Automation Engineering at SPŠ a VOŠ Kladno
Czech, English, German, Korean
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Github Skills (8)
c1710
debug10
c1110
command-line-utility10
networking9
linux9
system-administration8
documentation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iproute2/iproute2
Nov 2010 - Apr 2013
Iproute2 Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository. Please follow README.devel procedure for any changes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `iproute2` utilities. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to missing parameters, typos, and incorrect documentation within the `ss`, `lnstat`, and `arpd` tools. They also made code improvements, such as removing unreachable code and updating the default filter in the `ss` utility to mimic the behavior of `netstat`. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality and usability.
linuxrouting
fedora-modularity/hp
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 5 PRs, 45 pushes in 4 months
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