Self-nomination for 2024 TAB election

Hi all,

Please add me to the list of candidates for this year's TAB
elections.

I'm a kernel developer at Isovalent (Cisco), co-maintainer of the
eBPF subsystem and long-term contributor for more than a decade to
the Linux kernel in the networking as well as eBPF subsystem. I'm
also a member of the eBPF foundation technical steering committee
(BSC) which is responsible for the technical direction and overall
vision of eBPF as well as driving collaboration with academia and
industry, and funding projects in the eBPF ecosystem. My other
passion is security of the kernel. I've been a member of the
[email protected] response team for 3 years now, and have been
working on hardening eBPF.

I would be honored to serve as a member of the TAB, bringing in
my experience from the eBPF foundation's BSC and help to further
the adoption of not only eBPF but also networking & security-related
innovations in the kernel relevant to containers/Kubernetes in the
cloud native space and broader industry. I regularly interact and
participate in the Kubernetes community through our work on Cilium
and Tetragon which are two open source user space projects providing
networking, observability, and security for Pods, and I feel
passionate to bring in perspectives from both communities.

I enjoy being part of the organizing committees for the LSF/MM/BPF
conference as well as Linux Plumbers (eBPF track) and would like
to strengthen the relationship as a member of the TAB as I think
these two conferences are paramount to drive the development and
collaboration in our kernel community forward.

As a maintainer, I would also like to explore opportunities with
the TAB on how we can further improve our day to day development
work for the kernel. For example, in eBPF and networking, having a
strong underlying foundation through a CI which has patchwork
integration has saved a lot of cycles for both developers and
maintainers. Broadening and expanding CI & patchwork-related work
would be interesting in order to make our community's development
experience more efficient.

Thanks for your consideration,
Daniel