About

Pavol Pitoňák is a Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat with a focus on OpenShift Pipelines/Tekton - a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premise systems. With almost 2 years of relevant experience, Pavol is responsible for maintaining an internal OpenShift cluster and running team's CI/CD workloads on it, including testing clusters running on multiple clouds such as OpenStack, AWS, Azure, and GCP. He is also responsible for test and process automation, test suite development and maintenance, mainly end-to-end tests, verification of new features and bug fixes, and implementation of GitOps best practices. Pavol also contributes to product architecture designs, making him a vital part of the team. Pavol holds a degree in Service Science, Management and Engineering from Masarykova Univerzita Fakulta Informatiky, where he completed his Mgr. degree in 2011. He also holds a Bc. degree in Applied Informatics from the same institution, which he completed in 2009. Pavol's tech stack includes QA, test, CI/CD, AWS, Azure, and GCP. Overall, Pavol is a skilled and experienced software quality engineer with a passion for CI/CD systems and automation. He is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of software products and is always looking for ways to improve processes and implement best practices. His contributions to Red Hat have been invaluable, and he is a valuable asset to any team he works with.