Profile
Background
Horacio Gonzalez has been VP DevRel at Clever Cloud since 2024. He brings developers’ needs to the product teams and Clever Cloud’s work to the tech communities.
A Spanish engineer based in Brittany, he arrived in France more than twenty years ago and discovered web development in 1997. After six years at OVHcloud, where he was a DevRel and then Director of DevRel, he joined Clever Cloud to keep building bridges between product and community.
He co-founds and leads FinistDevs and Rdv des Speakers, founded FinistJUG in 2011, and speaks regularly at European conferences: Devoxx, Riviera DEV, DevFest, Codemotion.
His interests run from Web Components and web standards to Kubernetes, cloud and AI. He hosts Clever Cloud’s Message à caractère informatique podcast, where he unpacks the tech news of the day with guests from the ecosystem.
Perspective
Digital and GenAI credentials
Horacio Gonzalez follows and practices generative AI alongside developers: he has written and spoken about MCP servers, adapting APIs for agents, and local AI, and he hosts the MACI podcast, where he interviews the people building these systems. At Clever Cloud, he turns those uses into concrete feedback for the product teams.
