CFV: New OpenJDK Members Group Member: Athijegannathan Sundararajan

[Sean Mullan]

Vote: yes

--Sean

On 07/08/2014 11:29 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> I hereby nominate Athijegannathan Sundararajan simply known to many of
> us as "Sundar",
> who joined Sun Microsystems in the very early days of Java, circa 2000,
> as a sustaining engineer
> supporting JDK 1.2.2 with Exact VM.
>
> Sundar,  during the JDK5 time frame spent a lot of time and energy,
> improving various tools
> such as the serviceability agent (sa),  windbg back-end.
>
> Sundar integrated the javax.script API and the Rhino engine into JDK6,
> he worked on numerous
> JDK tools such as jhat, jrunscript and SA tools such as jmap and jstack.
> He has also worked
> extensively on JVMTI, dtrace and jstack support in HotSpot
>
> After a stint in the JavaFX team, contributing to the javafx compiler,
> Sundar is now part of the
> nashorn team, responsible for various contributions as well as
> integrations of the nashorn code
> base into JDK8 and JDK9.
>
> Besides his monumental contributions to the JDK, Sundar also co-authored
> the invaluable btrace,
> an open source dynamic tracing tool, and JSR-223 engines for many
> languages.
>
> Votes are due by the end of July 22, 2014.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [1] are eligible to vote on this
> nomination. Votes must be cast in the
> open by replying to this mailing list.
>
> For Three Vote Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>
> Kumar Srinivasan
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#three-vote-consensus