Hi, I’m Yuval Oren. I’ve spent about 20 years in and around production systems - starting in networking, moving through security, and landing squarely in DevOps, where “push, build, test, deploy” stopped being a slogan and became the day job.
I’m Israeli and based in Israel. I’ve built and broken enough pipelines, clusters, and cloud accounts to have opinions worth writing down - which is what this blog is for. These days a lot of that thinking is bleeding into AI: how it changes the way we build, test, and ship, and where it’s genuinely useful versus where it’s hype.
I’m an AWS Community Builder (2026), and I share what I learn in a few places:
- YouTube - Works in Prod - short videos on the same topics I write about here.
- TopoReady - a product I’m building; expect build notes and lessons here.
- LinkedIn - where I post and argue in longer form.
- Twitter/X (@yuvalo) - the quick stuff.
If any of this is useful, or you just want to talk shop, reach out. I read everything.