Michal Nowak
Quality Assurance Engineer at Internet Systems Consortium
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Nowak is a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer with 11+ years validating and automating enterprise Linux products, having driven release-quality testing at Red Hat, SUSE and currently ISC on the BIND DNS server. He specializes in Linux system administration, CLI scripting (Bash, Perl) and CI/test automation—notably fully automating SLES guests on Hyper-V and VMware in openQA to parity with KVM. At ISC he extends and stabilizes BIND’s system tests (including IPv6 and DNSSEC-related enhancements) and maintains CI environments used to approve product releases. Comfortable working remotely, he blends deep technical QA craft with hands-on troubleshooting and test-code development, and brings an unusual humanities background that sharpens his documentation and analysis skills.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Brno University of TechnologyLiberal Arts and Humanities, Liberal Arts and Humanities at Charles University in Prague
Czech, English
Github Skills (9)
sh10
dnssec10
script10
shell10
system-testing10
dns10
scripting10
ipv69
build-automation8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
isc-projects/bind9
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Archived mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1004 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michal contributed to the BIND9 project by merging commits related to IPv6, DNSSEC, and system test improvements. The user's work involved modifying system test scripts to include IPv6 address configuration, prevent build problems, and improve portability. These changes focused on enhancing the project's testing infrastructure and ensuring compatibility across different environments. Additionally, they implemented code to enhance reliability of various tests, as well as correct and prevent potential issues in performance.
gitlabdns-serverdnsisc
OpenIndiana/os-autoinst-distri-openindiana
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
os-autoinst test cases for OpenIndiana
Contributions:88 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 8 months
openindianatestcase
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