Tomáš Hozza
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolTomáš Hozza is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable OS images and core user-space networking components at Red Hat. He combines hands-on systems and backend expertise—demonstrated by bug-fixing contributions to the widely used Squid proxy—and embedded/IoT work on the MySensors library, with cross-functional leadership that has guided teams of up to 10 engineers. Based in Brno, he specializes in image tooling, network daemons and cloud image imports (including Enterprise Linux support for GCP), and is known for a perfectionist drive to eliminate memory leaks and hard-to-find defects. Comfortable balancing maintainer responsibilities with process and release planning, he brings deep knowledge of open source ecosystems and a pragmatic focus on shipping robust, secure infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Networks, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Networks at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveMaster's degree, Computer Networks and Communication, Master's degree, Computer Networks and Communication at Brno University of Technology
Slovak, English, Czech
Github Skills (27)
debug10
c-language10
memory-management10
c1110
c1710
iot10
disk10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
sensor10
arduino10
disk-io10
rft9
rfe9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mysensors/MySensors
Apr 2015 - May 2015
MySensors library and examples
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomáš contributed primarily to the MySensors library, focusing on radio transport implementations and gateway functionality. Their work involved fixing initialization errors in radio modules and adding support for LED blinking for visual feedback in gateways and sensor nodes. They also added and updated Ethernet gateway functionality and refined the MySensors library code base.
stm32f103raspberry-piteensyduinosamdraspberry
squid-cache/squid
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Squid Web Proxy Cache
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomáš primarily focused on fixing bugs and addressing issues identified by Coverity Scan within the Squid web proxy cache project. Their contributions involve correcting memory leaks, handling potential buffer overflows, and addressing uninitialized fields across multiple modules. The changes span various areas, including SMB library integrations, SNMP library management, IcapLogEntry updates, and Disk I/O operations, demonstrating a broad understanding of the project's internal workings. They also imported fixes from Red Hat's patchset.
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