Arel Rabinowitz
Engineering Team Lead at env zero
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolArel Rabinowitz is an engineering team lead and founding engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms from the ground up. He helped shape env0’s core architecture as Engineer #4 and now leads a team focused on delivery, design reviews, and maintaining architectural consistency. Arel is a founding maintainer of OpenTofu, contributing to its registry design and leading community RFCs while also handling delicate refactors and test fixes in high-profile repos. His background spans enterprise ESB work in the Israeli Air Force to mobile and database stacks, reflecting strong systems thinking grounded in a mathematics degree from Bar-Ilan. Colleagues value him for fostering technical ownership and for smoothing the path from ideation to production.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University
Github Skills (5)
terraformer10
go10
terraform10
configuration-management9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opentofu/opentofu
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:167 reviews, 27 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Arel's contributions primarily focused on adapting user-facing usages of "terraform" to "opentf" within the codebase, indicating a role in refactoring and maintaining the project. This involved modifications to comments, program usages, and internal files related to dependency locks, generated configurations, and module retrieval. The user also addressed test failures tied to these changes, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and project consistency during the renaming process.
cloud-infrastructureopentofu
RLRabinowitz/TempTemplates
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 100 PRs in 5 years 7 months
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