Veronika Kabátová is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of Linux and embedded-systems experience, currently shaping RHEL development pipelines and kernel CI at Red Hat. She’s a pragmatic systems engineer who builds and leads Continuous Kernel Integration efforts, having progressed from intern to technical lead and architect roles within the same organization. An open source fanatic, she contributes test automation and kernel test cases to the Linux Test Project and maintains a substantial codebase on GitLab. Her work blends low-level C and shell test development with higher-level Python automation and CI architecture, reflecting a rare full-stack view of kernel-to-infrastructure reliability. Based in Brno, she’s active in the local Python community and conference circuit, bringing both community-facing advocacy and deep technical craft to production systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Embedded systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Embedded systems at Masaryk University Brno
Linux Test Project (mailing list: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Veronika primarily contributed to the Linux Test Project (ltp) by adding and modifying test cases. Their work focused on verifying the functionality of system calls like `msync` and `getsockopt` and testing core functionalities such as dynamic debugging and vsyscall/vdso reporting. These contributions involved writing shell scripts and C code to create automated tests and ensuring they met the quality standards of the project.
Contributions:94 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 10 months
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Veronika Kabátová - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat