docs(blog): add contributor Itay Grudev (#285)

Signed-off-by: Floor Drees <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Silvela <[email protected]>

Author: FloorD

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+name: Floor Drees
+avatar: floor.jpg
+github: floord
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+
+Open Source community advocate and Principal Program Manager at EDB. PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee member, PG EU Diversity Committee member, PGDay Lowlands organizer. 

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+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Itay Grudev"
+date: 2025-04-14T14:51:43+02:00
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: itay.jpg
+    attribution:
+author: fdrees
+tags:
+ - helm
+ - grafana
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  First up is Itay Grudev, component owner for the Operator chart and PostgreSQL
+  Cluster Chart and the Grafana Dashboard for CloudNativePG."
+---
+
+Building and maintaining and open source project takes a village. In a
+mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
+maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
+
+We start with [Itay Grudev](https://github.com/itay-grudev). Why? Because he
+was the first to reply: "You caught me at the perfect time, I was just drinking
+my morning coffee with not much else going on."
+
+Itay loves computers and has been fascinated with them since he was just a kid.
+It's no surprise then that he ended up working in Tech (and Kubernetes and
+DevOps in specific). He suspects that "some degree of autism helps getting
+along with computers too".
+
+## Why CloudNativePG
+
+Itay works as a Software Engineering Consultant at Verito Digital, a web
+agency. He first heard about CloudNativePG when he was looking for a
+well-designed PostgreSQL operator. "The company I worked for at the time became
+the second CloudNativePG adopter, after EDB."
+
+## Known for...
+
+Itay then got involved as a contributor developing a Cluster Helm chart to
+complement the Operator Helm chart. Yep, he's the one to thank for that!
+
+If there's anything he could change, it would be to speed up Barman, and he
+also believes it should _not_ be implemented in Python. "Kudos to Gabriele
+Bartolini and Marco Nenciarini for building it and getting us to the point
+where we can complain about it, but it's time we replace it!" Message received,
+Itay!
+
+Today Itay is a component owner for the
+[Operator chart and PostgreSQL Cluster Chart](https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/charts),
+and for the [Grafana Dashboard for CloudNativePG](https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/grafana-dashboards)
+
+He tries to avoid social media - it's too addictive - but you can find Itay in
+the CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or [on GitHub](https://github.com/itay-grudev).