Steering Committee Nomination: Marko Mudrinić (@xmudrii)

xmudrii commented 1 year ago

Hello Kubernetes Community,

I'm Marko Mudrinić (@xmudrii) and I'd like to self-nominate for the upcoming Kubernetes Steering Committee election.

I started contributing to the Kubernetes project in early 2018. Since then, I have worn many different hats and some of my work and accomplishments are listed below:

Release Manager at SIG Release
Design and implement KEP-1731: Kubernetes community-owned package repositories (pkgs.k8s.io)
Co-lead efforts to create Prow build cluster on AWS and migrate relevant ProwJobs
Ex-release team member: bug triage lead in 1.16 release cycle, bug triage shadow in 1.14 and 1.15 release cycles
Received Kubernetes Contributor Award in 2022 for outstanding contributions to SIG Release
Spoke at many Kubernetes-related conferences and events, mostly notable KubeCon EU 2023, Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU 2023, and KubeCon NA 2018
Contributed to SIG Cluster Lifecycle/Cluster-API and many other cluster management solutions in the community
LFX Mentor for the upcoming Term 3: Sep-Nov 2023 - Kubernetes: Build a Go library and CLI for interacting with OpenBuildService
Undergrad Teaching Assistant as of 2023 at School of Computing, University Union, Belgrade, focused at teaching Kuberenetes and other cloud native technologies to about 100 final year students

Being part of SIG Release for many years taught me a lot about fostering diverse and sustainable contributor base in many different aspects, how to mentor and enable contributors to success in their roles, but also how to deliver high-quality Kubernetes releases in a safe and secure manner. As a Teaching Assistant, I had a great opportunity to first-hand see what problems are facing those who are starting their careers and want to embark on the Kubernetes/cloud native journey.

One of my main goals is to apply these learned lessons and help the Kubernetes community to:

build diverse and sustainable contributor base
attract contributors especially from the academia backgrounds and EMEA/APAC regions which are often facing many problems due to timezone differences
make Kubernetes easier and welcoming for everyone

Thank you for considering my self-nomination, Marko

/committee steering

aimuz commented 1 year ago

+1

soltysh commented 1 year ago

+1 employer: Red Hat

MadhavJivrajani commented 1 year ago

+1 Employer: VMware

rikatz commented 1 year ago

+1 Employer: VMware

natalisucks commented 1 year ago

+1 Employer: Cisco

reylejano commented 1 year ago

+1 Employer: SUSE

bridgetkromhout commented 1 year ago

Marko Mudrinić has the necessary endorsements and is eligible to run in the Steering Committee election. The candidate should prepare their candidate profile as a PR and submit it, per the instructions at: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/elections/steering/2023/README.md#candidacy-process (and I see that this is done).