Koby Holzer

Koby Holzer has extensive work experience in the field of DevOps, cloud operations, and engineering. Koby started their career in 1999 as a Developer and Sysadmin at Internet Gold before moving to Bezeq International in 2001. At Bezeq International, they served as the Head of Infrastructure Computing Department and ISP, leading the development and management of the ISP infrastructure for three million customers, including hosting services and two data centers. Koby also managed the IT infrastructure for a company of 3000 people.

In 2012, Koby joined LivePerson as the DevOps Group Leader before being promoted to Cloud Engineering and Operations Director in 2014. Koby built the cloud and platform to serve over 240 microservices and over 30 billion visits monthly. At LivePerson, they led teams in Cloud Platform Engineering, R&D DevOps, CI/CD, and Operations.

In 2018, Koby joined Clicktale as the R&D Director of Cloud Operations, where they built teams from the ground up to serve the business needs in DevOps, Cloud Operations, and Engineering. Koby worked on various technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Aerospike, Openstack, and co-location data centers.

Currently, Koby Holzer is the VP Head of Platform Engineering and Operations at Contentsquare, leading a global team of DevOps and Cloud developers. Koby'sresponsibilities include overseeing all aspects of AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Big data DB's, Kafka, ClickHouse, CI/CD, Monitoring and Alerting, Cost, Security and ensuring successful dev and production operations in a big scale SaaS.

Koby Holzer's education history begins in 1989 when they attended Irony A. However, no degree or field of study is specified for this period. From 1994 to 1995, they participated in the Special Computer Science program at Tel Aviv University, which was an advanced program designed for high school students in the 11th and 12th grade. In 2002, Koby Holzer enrolled at mla.ac.il and completed their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Business in 2005.