Ambassadors

Horovits lives at the intersection of technology, product and innovation. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud native, DevOps practices, open source and more.

Horovits is a public speaker and thought leader in the fields of DevOps, open source and specifically observability, having been on stage at KubeCon, Open Source Summit, FOSDEM and more. He also runs the popular OpenObservability Talks podcast, and you can also follow his blog and articles.

Horovits has been a leader in the Israeli community, an organizer of the CNCF chapter in Tel Aviv, and an organizer of the Israeli editions of Kubernetes Community Days (KCD), KubeDay and DevOpsDays.

• Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability
• Blog: medium.com/@horovits
• YouTube: youtube.com/@horovits
• Sessionize: sessionize.com/horovits

Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I’ve been advocating for open source and for the cloud native stack for years, online, on stage and with local communities, and I’m looking forward to expanding this activity as a CNCF Ambassador.

Mohammad Reza is a Senior Software Engineer at DoiT International with multiple years of experience in DevOps and Software Engineering. He actively contributes to the Kubernetes as part of the Release Team and has published multiple research papers and his PhD thesis on cloud-native technologies, particularly service meshes such as Istio and Cilium. He is writing about Cloud-Native technologies on his LinkedIn page and his personal blog. You can also find his previous talks in various venues on his Youtube channel.