Martin Gencur
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Gencur is a Principal Software Quality Engineer with 16 years of experience leading QA for cloud-native platforms, currently heading quality efforts for Red Hat OpenShift Serverless (Knative) and previously for JBoss Data Grid. He blends deep test automation and DevOps expertise—designing E2E suites, CI/CD pipelines, and high-availability test harnesses—with hands-on backend development in Go, Java, Scala and Groovy. Comfortable across containers, Kubernetes, Tekton and OpenShift, he has improved test reliability and security contexts in prominent projects like knative/eventing, knative/serving and openshift/ci-tools. Martin’s background in Java EE and contributions to projects such as Weld, Infinispan and RadarGun reflect a rare mix of legacy enterprise and modern cloud-native proficiency. Based in Brno, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a penchant for refining test infrastructure and performance validation at scale.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Technology - Information Systems, Master's Degree, Information Technology - Information Systems at Brno University of Technology
Github Skills (57)
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networking10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
knative/pkg
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Knative common packages
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:40 reviews, 13 commits, 21 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and automation within the Knative project. Their contributions include creating and refactoring test functions and related code to support high-availability testing, which involved the modification of the test harness. They also introduced features related to profiling, adding a server and configuration options. Additionally, they modified the test clients for increased flexibility, making request intervals and timeouts configurable. The user implemented several bug fixes and improvements throughout the testing framework, showcasing a commitment to improving overall test quality.
knative
knative/eventing
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Event-driven application platform for Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 34 commits, 73 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines within the Knative Eventing repository. They implemented and refined end-to-end (E2E) test suites, including the creation of test resources, and improved the efficiency of image uploading and tagging processes. Significant changes were made to the test scripts and configurations to streamline test execution, resource cleanup, and upgrade test verification, indicating a focus on automation and reliability. They also addressed security contexts of test pods, further improving the tests' setup.
event-drivenkuberneteseventsbindingknative
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