elections/2024/khouzam.xml

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<boardmember id="khouzam" type="committer">

	<name>Matthew Khouzam</name>

  <title>Product Manager / Developer at Ericsson</title>

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	<image>khouzam.jpg</image>

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	<email>matthew.khouzam@ericsson.com</email>

	<phone></phone>

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	<contact></contact>

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  <eclipse_affiliation>
    I work on Trace Compass, as well as the Trace Compass environment as a
    manager and developer. I also work with Eclipse Theia, Blueprint, and CDT
    cloud. I work within the tools team at Ericsson.
  </eclipse_affiliation>

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	<vision>
		<![CDATA[
      <p>
        My vision for 2024 has evolved slightly. The foundation has seen a large
        growth with SDV, Oniro and ThreadX. I want to encourage cross project
        collaboration. Basically, I want to make sure the wheel is not
        re-invented but improved collaboratively if it makes sense. I would
        encourage the foundation to act as the bridge between various parties,
        making stronger communities based on technical excellence. I am already
        volunteering as a board representatitve on the Code Of Conduct workgroup
        to ensure the community remains such a wonderful and welcoming place.
      </p>
      <p>
        Previously, I focused on security, integrity, clarity, performance and
        community aspects. On the community side, I would push for efforts to
        make Eclipse more interesting for academia and smaller businesses, in an
        effort to diversify the ecosystem. For the performance aspect, Despite
        being a "manager," in my heart I am a performance engineer.
      </p>
      <p>
        On the clarity side, the Eclipse Foundation is a role model of openness,
        and I would continue to defend their efforts. On the integrity side,
        projects such as dash-licenses show that the project is open in a
        responsible way and encourages strong IP due diligence, and I would
        continue to support such initiatives as well as the open chain
        initiative.
      </p>
      <p>
        For security, Eclipse is world class, in my opinion. Their response time
        to CVEs such as Log4j and XercesJ was exemplary. I would continue
        encouraging such behaviour in any way possible.
      </p>
      <p>
        We are a large and diverse community. This is great &mdash; let's share
        our ideas more, and have fun in the process.
      </p>
		]]>
	</vision>

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  <bio>
    <![CDATA[
      <p>
        I have been using Eclipse tools since the Callisto release and have
        been a committer on Eclipse projects for 10 years, with almost 5,000
        reviews to my name. I am the product manager for Eclipse Theia, OpenVSX,
        Eclipse Trace Compass within Ericsson and co-lead for the Eclipse Trace
        Compass Incubator. I am also co-lead of the CDT.cloud project. I am a
        technology enthusiast, especially in the field of performance
        engineering. In the copious amounts of free time I have left, I am a
        husband, a father, and I enjoy cooking, biking and woodworking. I am
        also a budding doodler and has been co-developing a game in my remaining
        spare time.
      </p>
      <p>
        I have worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and
        small companies as well as university research labs.
      </p>
      <p>
        Finally, I am a great big nerd. I will gladly broach any subject if the
        other side brings enthusiasm.
      </p>
      <p>
        I was honored to have been elected in 2022 and 2023 and have focused on
        protecting Eclipse's brand as well as increasing a focus on security and
        software origins/SBOMs in general. I will continue pushing these issues
        as with the current climate, this will benefit all committers.
      </p>
      <p>
        I am not related to Marc, though he is wonderful!
      </p>
    ]]>
  </bio>

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  <affiliation>Ericsson</affiliation>

</boardmember>