Pavel Drozd
Software Development Manager at Red Hat
Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Drozd is a software development manager with 13 years of experience leading quality engineering and backend development across enterprise open-source and commercial platforms. He currently holds leadership roles at IBM and Red Hat, where he has progressed from principal quality engineer to manager-level positions focused on delivering robust, test-driven systems. Pavel has hands-on expertise in backend testing and automation, notably contributing to Keycloak’s test suite to improve LDAP federation, Kerberos integration, and admin-console coverage for a widely used IAM project. His background as a software architect and senior Java developer informs a practical approach to engineering leadership, blending architecture, QA strategy, and developer productivity. Based in Czechia and educated at Masaryk University, he brings both deep technical roots and a track record of improving cross-environment test reliability in large, distributed codebases. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained focus on adapting tests to diverse application servers and deployment environments, which helps ensure real-world resilience.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Magistr (Mgr.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Magistr (Mgr.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Masarykova univerzita Brno
Github Skills (9)
keycloak10
javas10
ldap10
junit10
kerberos10
java10
test-automation10
saml8
oid7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keycloak/keycloak
Sep 2015 - Mar 2021
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:73 reviews, 247 commits, 400 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the test suite, adding new tests and modifying existing ones to enhance Keycloak's functionality. Their work focused on integrating LDAP-based user federation, including testing features such as configurable sleep times, Kerberos authentication, and group mapping. The contributions included writing test cases for the admin console and adapting tests to support different application servers and environments.
access-managementkeycloakoidcsaml
pdrozd/keycloak
Sep 2015 - Mar 2024
SSO SaaS
Contributions:3 PRs, 194 pushes, 80 branches in 8 years 7 months
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