Tomas Smetana
Senior Manager at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolTomas Smetana is a Senior Manager at Red Hat with 18 years of experience leading distributed engineering teams focused on Kubernetes/OpenShift, container orchestration, and system management while remaining an active hands-on developer. He combines deep Linux systems expertise (RHCE) and low-level application development in C, Go, and Python with practical DevOps and QA experience, contributing notable fixes and test automation to flagship projects like Kubernetes and OpenShift. A long-time FOSS enthusiast, Tomas influences upstream development—improving storage integrations, volume controllers, and conformance test suites—bringing both architectural oversight and gritty debugging skills. Based in Brno, he balances people leadership and project management with regular technical contributions, a blend that has driven stability and testability across large-scale platform projects.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Theoretical Informatics, Master of Science (MS), Theoretical Informatics at Masaryk University Brno
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Github Skills (34)
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
container10
persistent-volumes10
testing10
e2e-test10
lvm10
storage10
linux10
dbus10
go10
openshift10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
daemon10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/external-storage
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
[EOL] External storage plugins, provisioners, and helper libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 31 PRs, 1 push in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tomas primarily updated dependencies and added code related to snapshot functionality within the Kubernetes external storage repository. The commits indicate the integration of Heketi block API and the implementation of AWS EBS-related features. These changes also include bug fixes and code refactoring to align with the latest controller implementation, showing an understanding of storage plugin and cloud provider integrations.
eolexternal-storageopenebsstorage
kubernetes/kubernetes
Nov 2016 - Dec 2021
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 29 commits, 31 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomas contributed to the Kubernetes project by addressing issues in cloud provider integrations, specifically focusing on the VSphere and OpenStack implementations, fixing race conditions and incorrect label assignments. They also implemented and tested metrics related to persistent volumes and volume controllers, which involved interacting with the core Kubernetes volume management components. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to local volume management and CSI mock tests to improve overall system stability and reliability.
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