SIG Scheduling Leadership updates

[Aldo Culquicondor]

Hello kubefolks,

On behalf of the current SIG Scheduling leadership (Huang Wei, Abdullah Gharaibeh and myself), I announce that we will step down from our roles and we nominate the following contributors:

• Chairs: Kensei Nakada (Tetrate.io) and Maciej Skoczeń (Google)

• TLs: Kensei Nakada (Tetrate.io) and Dominik Marciński (Google)

Kensei has been a member of the SIG since 2021, when he worked on kube-scheduler-simulator as part of GSoC. Ever since, he has demonstrated strong technical capabilities and commitment to the project. He has been an approver since 2023 and has led many KEPs, perhaps most famously Scheduling Hints.

Maciej has been contributing to the SIG since June 2024, with numerous contributions to the scalability of the scheduler. Most recently, he has been improving the unschedulable pods processing. He became an approver in January 2025.

Dominik has been contributing to the SIG since Sep 2024 and has recently become an approver. He has been the primary reviewer of almost all PR and KEPs in the last release. He has also been representing SIG scheduling in wg-device-management meetings.

For the past few months, all of the discussions about issues, the future development and SIG scheduling direction have already been driven by Kensei, Maciej and Dominik, so this leadership change just reflects the reality of the SIG.

The lazy consensus deadline for this proposal is one week from today - Friday February 18th.

This email is sent in accordance with the process updates for SIG leadership transitions (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/chairs-and-techleads/leadership-changes.md) and the SIG Scheduling charter (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-scheduling/charter.md).

If you have any questions about this proposal, please reach out via any of:

- The #sig-scheduling Slack channel

- The sig-scheduling mailing list

- Current SIG Scheduling leads

If you have any private concerns, please reach out instead to: steering...@kubernetes.io

Thanks,

Aldo

[Wei Huang]

Thanks, Aldo!

It's been a truly wonderful journey. I've had the honor of working with an amazing community to shape quite meaningful features, scheduler framework, pod topology spread, pod scheduling readiness, along with initiating sub-projects like scheduler-plugins and KWOK. I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved together.

While stepping down from sig-scheduling does come with a touch of sadness, I'm genuinely excited to see fresh energy and creativity flowing into the group. With so many passionate new contributors, I have no doubt the SIG will continue to thrive and push boundaries. I won't be far - I'll still be around, cheering on and supporting this community that means so much to me.

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[Babak Salamat]

Thanks a lot, Wei, Aldo, and Abdullah for all of your great contributions to the SIG!

Congratulations Kensei, Maciej, and Dominik! Wish you all the best in your new roles.

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[Kensei Nakada]

Thank you so much for everything you’ve done for the SIG. You’ve accomplished so much over the years.
I feel fortunate to have had the chance to work with all of you, and I’ve learned a great deal — it’s truly been an invaluable experience for me.

I’m honored to be nominated for the leadership role, and I’ll do my best to live up to it.

Kensei

2025年4月11日金曜日 19:45:55 UTC+2 bsal...@google.com:

[Sreeram Venkitesh]

Congrats Kensei, Maciej and Dominik! Thank you Aldo, Wei and Abdullah for all your work!

[Antonio Ojea]

Congratulations to Kensei, Maciej and Dominik and thanks Aldo, Wei and Abdullah for all your great work during these years

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[haosdent]

Congrats Kensei, Maciej, and Dominik – well deserved! 🎉 Many thanks to Wei, Aldo and Abdullah for your help in past years!

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Best Regards,

Haosdent Huang

[Yuki Iwai]

Thanks for all your tremendous contributions to sig-scheduling, Wei, Aldo, and Abdullah.

And I hope that the next journey is going well.

Congrats on the promotion, Kensei, Maciej, and Dominik! I'm looking forward to seeing more collaborations!

Kind regards,

Yuki.

2025年4月14日(月) 11:08 haosdent <haos...@gmail.com>:

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[Maciej Szulik]

Big thank you to Huang, Abdullah and Aldo, and congratulations to Kensei, Maciej and Dominik.

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[Michał Woźniak]

Congrats Kensei, Maciej, and Dominik! And thank you Wei, Aldo and Abdullah for all the incredible contributions in the sig-scheduling space.

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[Patrick Ohly]

"'Aldo Culquicondor' via dev" <d...@kubernetes.io> writes:
> On behalf of the current SIG Scheduling leadership (Huang Wei, Abdullah
> Gharaibeh and myself), I announce that we will step down from our roles and
> we nominate the following contributors:
>
> Chairs: Kensei Nakada (Tetrate.io) and Maciej Skoczeń (Google)
>
> TLs: Kensei Nakada (Tetrate.io) and Dominik Marciński (Google)

I fully agree with what has been said before: many thanks to the
previous leaders and congratulations to the new ones. Without Aldo's
early support and guidance and then push towards something better,
DRA wouldn't be where it is today. But it wasn't just Aldo, pretty much
everyone above has helped out at some point.

With SIG Scheduling in good hand, expect some more DRA KEPs coming
your way soon ;-)

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Best Regards

Patrick Ohly
Cloud Software Architect

[aco...@google.com]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Working on SIG Scheduling and the broader Kubernetes community has been a wonderful experience both on a professional and personal level. I'm proud of all the things we built together, working across oceans and companies.

I wish the SIG and its new leads all the best!

The transfer process is almost complete https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/8428, but the ownership of the most critical components and tools is already done.

So long, and thanks for all the... containers(?)!

Aldo

[Filip Křepinský]

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM 'aco...@google.com' via [DEPRECATED] kubernetes-sig-scheduling <kubernetes-s...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Working on SIG Scheduling and the broader Kubernetes community has been a wonderful experience both on a professional and personal level. I'm proud of all the things we built together, working across oceans and companies.

I wish the SIG and its new leads all the best!

The transfer process is almost complete https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/8428, but the ownership of the most critical components and tools is already done.

So long, and thanks for all the... containers(?)!

Aldo

Sad to see you go Aldo, Wei and Abdullah. Thanks so much for all your efforts!

And cheers to your new roles Kensei, Maciej and Dominik!

On Monday, April 14, 2025 at 8:16:35 AM UTC-4 Patrick Ohly wrote:

"'Aldo Culquicondor' via dev" <d...@kubernetes.io> writes:
> On behalf of the current SIG Scheduling leadership (Huang Wei, Abdullah
> Gharaibeh and myself), I announce that we will step down from our roles and
> we nominate the following contributors:
>
> Chairs: Kensei Nakada (Tetrate.io) and Maciej Skoczeń (Google)
>
> TLs: Kensei Nakada (Tetrate.io) and Dominik Marciński (Google)

I fully agree with what has been said before: many thanks to the
previous leaders and congratulations to the new ones. Without Aldo's
early support and guidance and then push towards something better,
DRA wouldn't be where it is today. But it wasn't just Aldo, pretty much
everyone above has helped out at some point.

With SIG Scheduling in good hand, expect some more DRA KEPs coming
your way soon ;-)

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Best Regards

Patrick Ohly
Cloud Software Architect

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