Merge pull request #4073 from nikhita/nikhita-steering

Add Nikhita's bio for 2019 Steering Committee election

events/elections/2019/README.md

@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ the [Steering Committee Election Charter]
 |   [Lachlan Evenson](./lachlanevenson.md)   |       Microsoft      | [@lachie83](https://github.com/lachie83)   |
 |        [Pengfei Ni](./pengfeini.md)        |       Microsoft      | [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)   |
 |        [Klaus Ma](./klausma.md)            |        Huawei        | [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn)         |
-| [Vallery Lancey](./vallerylancey.md)       |         Lyft         | [@vllry](https://github.com/vllry)
+| [Vallery Lancey](./vallerylancey.md)       |         Lyft         | [@vllry](https://github.com/vllry)         |
+| [Nikhita Raghunath](./nikhitaraghunath.md) |        Loodse        | [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)     |
 
 [Kubernetes Steering Committee]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering
 [Steering Committee Charter]: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md

events/elections/2019/nikhitaraghunath.md

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+# Nikhita Raghunath
+
+- GitHub: [nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)
+- Twitter: [TheNikhita](https://twitter.com/TheNikhita)
+- Employment: Loodse
+
+## Why Me
+
+I have been facilitating the Steering Committee with automating and
+unifying many organizational processes. Due to this, I am already familiar with
+the responsibilities associated with the role and would love to formally help
+with governance aspects.
+
+Being a Steering Committee member sometimes involves doing the "unexciting and
+boring" parts of maintaining a project. I have never shied away from such
+tasks and have been regularly contributing with lots of "unglamorous" work.
+
+If given a chance, I would love to do more chopping wood and carrying water
+for the project! :)
+
+## What I do
+
+- I started contributing two years ago as a
+[Google Summer of Code (GSoC) intern](https://github.com/nikhita/gsoc-meta-k8s).
+I had a wonderful experience and wanted to give back - now, I help run the
+[GSoC](https://github.com/cncf/soc) and [Outreachy](https://git.k8s.io/community/mentoring/outreachy.md)
+internship programs for Kubernetes.
+
+- Currently, I am a Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience and
+am on the [GitHub Administration Team](https://git.k8s.io/community/github-management#github-administration-team).
+
+- I can be seen [tinkering with prow plugins](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+author%3Anikhita)
+and triaging issues to help improve the contributor experience.
+
+- As a part of SIG API Machinery, I have written [design](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/708/)
+[proposals](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/913)
+and authored several features regarding CRDs. I also work on the release process
+for client-go.
+
+- I am active in SIG Release and maintain the [publishing bot](https://github.com/kubernetes/publishing-bot)
+and the licensing subproject.
+
+- I also love adding emojis in Slack and GitHub reviews so that it remains a
+friendly environment for everyone! :rainbow:
+
+## What I will do
+
+- Nurture an inclusive, diverse, empathetic and open community.
+- Drive staffing efforts towards unowned areas in the project
+to improve the overall project stability.
+- Improve reviewer/approver scalability and facilitation of knowledge transfer
+to prevent contributor burnout, and to enable and empower part-time contributors.