Discomfort Zone

For the last 20 years, Riki has been writing frontend code, mostly Javascript. In his spare time, he likes cooking and going for long walks while listening to podcasts. He hates JQuery.

Radek's extensive career at Red Hat spans multiple roles, from engineer to engineering and team lead. He led a large Red Hat Enterprise Linux development team before transitioning to OpenShift engineering, where he spotted an interesting opportunity to work with product telemetry data and introduced services to improve operational efficiency of the platform. He became a product manager and later picked up the observability product management team, where he now coordinates work across multiple products that benefit from observability features. Radek is also a dedicated community builder, organising the local conference, DevConf.cz, and fostering strong relationships between Red Hat and local universities. He's also a recognised mentor, helping other managers to grow in the company and representing Red Hat at various events.