CFV: New JDK Committer: Damon Fenacci

[Tobias Hartmann]

Hi,

I hereby nominate Damon Fenacci to JDK Committer.

Damon is a member of the HotSpot Compiler Team at Oracle and located in Zurich, Switzerland. He
holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and a MSc in Computer Science from ETH
Zurich, with a focus on compilers and computer networks. Damon has over 20 years of software
development experience, mostly in compilers and full-stack engineering. More recently, he did
research at Queen's University in Belfast on optimizations for Java compilers and VMs, focusing on
memory management and garbage collection for Big Data frameworks.

Damon contributed 13 changes to HotSpot [1] of which at least the following eight are significant:
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/47ca5773a54743244a9b28f877246d260b90a408
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/e4252bb91478e9c2f0a5bbdae7cd663838d91b1b
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/4b0e656bb6a823f50507039df7855183ab98cd83
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/9b1ade8e2b324b3875bf97c70d8591c577568c32
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/5b1584b92c9a469dd5928ae9a795d5e823050229
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/ec95991470a99c917f757614fc6d2cd883bdb39b
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/86d588b035d09141d807dbed6b91d9909782d61a
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/8e49fcdde4fef5a8db36823b35d409ba2c9ec47b

Votes are due by Monday, 13 March 2023 at 15:00 UTC.

Only current JDK Committers [2] are eligible to vote on this nomination.  Votes must be cast in the
open by replying to this mailing list.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [3].

Best regards,
Tobias

[1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commits?author=dafedafe
[2] https://openjdk.java.net/census
[3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote