Steering Committee Nomination: Priyanka Saggu (@Priyankasaggu11929)

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Priyanka Saggu

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Hello everyone,

I'm nominating myself for the Kubernetes Steering Committee election, 2026.

I am running because I want to practice equity and represent under-represented sections. It is important to me, and I try hard to practice that in my current leadership roles already, today.

I am of the firm belief that: Inclusion isn't complete, until leadership is shared.

I want to take this principle (equity over equality) to the level where it shapes policy, not just individual SIGs.
I'd like to help global regions with strong presence but thinner leadership pipelines, grow more maintainers and decision-makers in their own timezones.
I want Steering to be able to support that with real data and existing SIG/WG processes.

Here’s some of the work that has brought me to this point:

I am a contributor to the Kubernetes project across SIG-Node, SIG-API-Machinery, SIG-ContribEx, and SIG-Release in various capacities since 2020.
I currently serve as Technical-Lead for SIG-ContribEx and Kubernetes GitHub-Admin (much of that work happens behind the scenes, and keeps a project this size functioning.)
I served on various Release Teams (v1.23–v1.31) including being the Release-Lead for v1.29 (Mandala) and Emeritus-Advisor for v1.31.
I am a maintainer of Node-readiness-controller, a SIG-Node subproject I helped bootstrap.
I have driven KEP-3085 (PodReadyToStartContainers) to GA (v1.37) and I am a co-author of KEP-4595 (CEL for AdditionalPrinterColumns). I was also a Production Readiness Reviewer shadow (PRR) in v1.37.
Within the broader CNCF landscape: I co-chaired the first-ever CNCF Maintainer Summit, 2024.
I have contributed to the charter-development of the Working Group, Special Purpose Operating System (SP-OS).
I've also been humbled to receive the CNCF Community Award (2024), Kubernetes Community Award (2023), and Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award (2023) for my work in Kubernetes.

I began my open source journey in 2018 with DGPLUG summer training, a program run over IRC, designed for people in areas with limited internet connectivity.
I learnt from sessions conducted by maintainers from many important open source projects (like PSF, Debian, Fedora, Ansible, Tor Project, and others) which would have been almost impossible for us otherwise.
It is the foundation of my open source ethos.

Through the years, Mentoring has been a source of learning, and fulfillment, and also where I invest seriously.
I've tried to advocate for the idea of sponsorship, which means I also ensure that I try really hard to vouch for and enable opportunities for folks.
Folks I mentored early on have become core contributors to many projects within and outside Kubernetes.

If you're an eligible voter interested in endorsing me, reply to the nomination issue: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/9092, saying something like "I endorse this nominee, and I work for …" or "+1."
Please state you're an eligible voter and include your employer, so Election Officers can count it.