GB Nomination: Volker Simonis

[Volker Simonis]

Thanks for the nomination Christoph!

I'm happy to accept the nomination and will post my candidate
statement to https://openjdk.org/poll/gb/2024/ soon.

Best regards,
Volker

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM Langer, Christoph
<christoph.langer at sap.com> wrote:
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> I’d like to nominate Volker Simonis for At-Large membership in the OpenJDK Governing Board.
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> Volker is currently working in the Amazon Corretto team and has more than 15 years of experience with JVMs/JDKs. In the OpenJDK project, which he joined right from the start, he's a Reviewer since jdk8, he lead the 'ppc-aix-port' and 's390x-port' porting projects and he's a member of the 'hotspot', 'build', 'porters', 'vulnerability' and 'members' groups. He was the driving force behind SAP’s engagement in the OpenJDK project, initiated the SapMachine project, represented SAP in the JCP Executive Committee, served in the Java SE 9-13 Expert Groups and currently represents Amazon in the JCP Executive Committee.
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> Volker is still an active OpenJDK Committer/Reviewer and was elected as an at-large member into the OpenJDK Governing Board in 2022.
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> He is a well known and respected speaker at major Java conferences and has always been vocal in articulating the needs of the OpenJDK community with regards to openness, better infrastructure and tooling.
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> With his experience to work on both, commercial (SAP JVM) as well as open source versions of the OpenJDK (SapMachine, Amazon Corretto), he is an ideal fit for the OpenJDK Governing Board.
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> Best regards,
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