GB Nomination: Roman Kennke

[Kennke, Roman]

Hi Volker,

Thank you for the kind words! I am happy to accept the nomination.

My candidate statement will follow soon.

Roman

> I would like to nominate Roman Kennke for an At-Large seat in the
> OpenJDK Governing Board.
> 
> Roman has been an active contributor to Java and JVMs since more than
> 20 years. He is involved in OpenJDK since its inception in 2007, and
> has contributed in many areas including the graphics stack,
> observability tools, JIT compilers, Garbage Collectors and the HotSpot
> runtime. Roman is one of the principal authors of the Shenandoah GC
> since its inception in 2013, and is leading that project since 2018.
> He is also leading the project Lilliput since 2021. Roman is a Java
> Champion and has been speaking about Java and JVM technology at
> various conferences like JVMLS, FOSDEM and JavaOne.
> 
> Professionally, Roman has worked on JVMs and OpenJDK in various
> companies. Starting in 2005, until 2009 at aicas on a realtime Java
> VM, 2009 to 2010 at Sun Microsystems/Oracle's Java client group, from
> 2012 to 2022 at Red Hat's OpenJDK group, and 2022 until now at
> Amazon's Corretto team.
> 
> I think that his technical expertise,  his long-term experience with
> the OpenJDK project and his ability to earn trust of the OpenJDK
> community make him an excellent candidate for an At-Large seat on the
> OpenJDK Governing Board.
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker