CFV: New JDK Committer: Kelvin Nilsen

[Thomas Stüfe]

Vote: yes

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM Ramakrishna, Ramki <ysr at amazon.com> wrote:

> I hereby nominate Kelvin Nilsen (openjdk: kdnilsen, github:kdnilsen) to
> JDK Committer.
>
> At time of writing, Kelvin [0] is an Author on the jdk project and a
> Committer on the shenandoah project.
>
> Kelvin is currently a Principal Engineer with the OpenJDK Corretto team at
> Amazon. He has authored over 10 commits directly to the JDK repository [1].
> He has led the Generational Shenandoah project [2] at Amazon, and has been
> deeply involved in its original inception, design, implementation, and
> performance improvements. In addition to his direct commits to the JDK
> repository, Kelvin has authored nearly 100 commits to the Generational
> Shenandoah project [3] prior to its integration into tip. He has resolved
> over 30 JBS issues [4], pertaining to Shenandoah and GenShen.
>
> Prior to his current role at Amazon, Kelvin started his career as an
> assistant professor of computer science, following a Ph.D. at the
> University of Arizona. He has collaborated with NIST on an extension of
> Java to real-time, consulted with the Expert Group for RTSJ, and designed &
> implemented JVMs for real-time systems.
>
> Votes are due by Friday January 31, 2025.
>
> Only current JDK Committers [5] 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 [6].
>
> Sincerely,
> / Ramki Ramakrishna (openjdk: ysr)
>
> [0] https://openjdk.org/census#kdnilsen
> [1]
> https://github.com/pulls?q=repo:openjdk/jdk+is:closed+is:pr+author:kdnilsen
> [2] https://openjdk.org/jeps/404
> [3]
> https://github.com/pulls?q=repo:openjdk/shenandoah+is:closed+is:pr+author:kdnilsen
> [4]
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/issues/?jql=status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20assignee%20%3D%20kdnilsen
> [5] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
> [6] https://openjdk.org/projects/#committer-vote
>
>
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