Matthew Khouzam 2026 candidate
Product Manager / Developer at Ericsson
Nominee for Committer Member representative
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.
email: matthew.khouzam at ericsson.com
Vision
My vision for 2025 pivoted. We need to work more with AI and encourage the external AI embedded IDEs extending eclipse tech to join the table and talk to us. The foundation has seen a large growth with SDV 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.
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.
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.
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.
We are a large and diverse community. This is great - let's share our ideas more, and have fun in the process.
About the candidate
I have been using Eclipse tools since the Callisto release and have been a committer on Eclipse projects for over 10 years, with almost 5,000 reviews to my name. I was 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.
I have worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and small companies as well as university research labs.
Finally, I am a great big nerd. I will gladly broach any subject if the other side brings enthusiasm.
I was honored to have been elected in 2022, 2023, and 2024 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.
I am not related to Marc, though he is wonderful!