Summary
Stanislav Kozina is a seasoned engineering leader and consultant with 16 years of experience building and managing teams that deliver low-level, high-durability systems. He has led global squads at Canonical, Microsoft, and Red Hat focused on virtualization, kernel tracing (perf, ftrace, strace, eBPF) and livesite management for large-scale services handling hundreds of thousands of critical requests daily. Known for fostering open, collaborative teams, he combines hands-on kernel and virtualization expertise with people management, mentoring, and university teaching. His career includes deep Solaris and kernel sustainment work at Oracle and pragmatic troubleshooting of complex customer issues at Red Hat. Based in Brno, he values honesty, transparency and good humor, and brings a track record of shaping product strategy as well as executing operational reliability improvements. A practical systems thinker, he often bridges research-level tracing techniques with production-grade service durability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mgr., Computer Science, Mgr., Computer Science at Univerzita Karlova v Praze
Bc., Informatics, Bc., Informatics at Charles University in Prague
English, Czech, German