Pavel Hrdina
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolPavel Hrdina is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brno with 14 years of experience focused on virtualization, back-end systems, and test automation. He has a long tenure at Red Hat where he progressed from internship to senior engineer, contributing deep expertise to libvirt/QEMU, virt-manager and the autotest frameworks. Pavel’s open-source work shows a consistent pattern of bug fixing, refactoring and adding guest/migration features, improving resilience and usability in heavily used virtualization projects. He combines practical testing automation skills with low-level virtualization knowledge, frequently touching snapshotting, migration and cgroup handling. Notably, his contributions to libvirt and virt-manager address both core hypervisor integration and the desktop management tooling that thousands rely on.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Vysoké učení technické v BrněStřední průmyslová škola Zlín
English, Czech
Github Skills (19)
libvirt10
back-end-development10
python10
qemu10
testing10
snap10
linux10
test-framework10
c1110
snapshots10
c1710
virtualization10
snap-shot10
cgroups10
xen9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
autotest/tp-libvirt
Jul 2013 - Feb 2015
Test Provider for Libvirt and related virtualization backends
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:34 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on improving the testing framework and fixing bugs within the `autotest/tp-libvirt` repository. Their contributions include addressing issues related to cgroup paths, correcting import statements, and enhancing the `virsh_attach_detach_disk` test. They also made improvements to the codebase to ensure the tests aligned with the latest libvirt updates. Furthermore, the user corrected the checking of results and fixed bugs around migration.
libvirtvirtualizationtestingpython
virt-manager/virt-manager
Mar 2015 - Sep 2021
Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 37 reviews, 170 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the back-end development of the `virt-manager` project, a desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. Their contributions included fixing bugs, refactoring existing code, and improving the functionality of the virtualization management tool. They addressed issues related to hard-coded paths, translation functions, and CPU handling. Further work involved adding support for new guest features and fixing various issues related to migration, cloning, and user interface elements, improving the tool's overall stability and usability.
libvirtvirtual-machine
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