Tomáš Chvátal
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTomáš Chvátal is a seasoned software engineering manager with 14 years’ experience specializing in Linux, security, packaging and release engineering. He has led global teams at SUSE and Meta to deliver critical production systems, from emergency maintenance pipelines and FIPS/Common Criteria certification work to privacy-focused SRE initiatives handling content deletion at scale. A hands-on maintainer and packager by background, he improves build systems and code quality—evident in contributions to projects like the OpenXcom build tooling—and brings an operator’s eye for removing bottlenecks in fast update delivery. Based in Edinburgh, he blends deep open-source community experience (Gentoo and openSUSE) with pragmatic security and release discipline, making him effective at turning compliance and reliability requirements into automated, measurable processes.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Informatics, Bsc, Informatics at Czech University of Life sciences
Czech, English
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Github Skills (10)
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game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
sdl9
comb9
cpp8
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
OpenXcom/OpenXcom
Sep 2011 - Aug 2018
Open-source clone of the original X-Com 👽
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tomáš's primary contributions involved enhancing the build system and addressing code quality issues within the OpenXcom project. This included integrating an autotools-based build system, ensuring proper path handling, and cleaning up whitespace and trailing characters. The user also corrected warnings and improved code structure across multiple files, demonstrating a focus on maintainability and code quality. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's build process and overall code health.
gameufo-defensex-comsdlc-plus-plus
openSUSE/xinetd
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
xinetd is a secure replacement for inetd - openSUSE fork to contain all the patches we had
Contributions:1 release, 152 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years
secureopenvasendpoint-securityxinetdsystems-programming
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