From 29ce86f2788bda1d239f2be50a271b0ee8de94aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikhita Raghunath Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 18:15:58 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add Nikhita's bio for 2019 Steering Committee election --- events/elections/2019/README.md | 3 +- events/elections/2019/nikhitaraghunath.md | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 events/elections/2019/nikhitaraghunath.md diff --git a/events/elections/2019/README.md b/events/elections/2019/README.md index 078ca2108..354a2955a 100644 --- a/events/elections/2019/README.md +++ b/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 diff --git a/events/elections/2019/nikhitaraghunath.md b/events/elections/2019/nikhitaraghunath.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0478c73c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/events/elections/2019/nikhitaraghunath.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# 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.