[CC Nomination Request] Michael Heap

[Michael Heap]

To all FIG project representatives:

Like those who have posted before me, I too am writing to the list today to request a nomination to the FIG 3.0 Core Committee. I'm asking for a nomination on the mailing list as I do not have a strong personal relationship with any voting members.

For the many of you that don't know me, allow me to introduce myself - I'm Michael, a polyglot developer based in the UK. I've been writing code professionally for about a decade for all kinds of clients, from tiny one person companies to code that processes 100% of the Facebook firehose (see http://blog.datasift.com/2015/03/10/datasift-and-facebook-partnership/). Over the last few years I've really doubled down on conference speaking, presenting on topics as varied as application profiling to deploying WordPress (see https://michaelheap.com/talks/). I've also made some contributions to open source projects, but not as many as I'd like.

So, why vote for me as a member of the core committee? The answer lies in what I'm not, rather than what I am. I'm not deeply involved in various open source projects. I've not been vocal on this list (though I have read this and internals for years). In short, I'm not your typical FIG member. Instead, I've spent time working with companies that want to standardise and adopt new technology, but don't know where to start. These companies cover both ends of the spectrum - from monolithic projects to dozens of microservices, from deploying with FTP to immutable infrastructure. The one thing they all have in common is that they want to adopt the standards that the FIG are producing - both to improve their own code base and to reduce the learning curve for new hires. By joining the core committee, I believe that I can help by providing practical input that will help everyday companies adopt new PSRs.

If you ask those that I've worked with to describe my working style, they'd tell you that it's "strong beliefs, loosely held". The end result, whilst important, isn't the only thing that we should consider. The journey towards any solution is one of the most important parts. Making sure that every edge case has been considered (even if it's been considered and discounted) is imperative to arrving at solutions that are robust and applicable for all.

Thanks for reading this far, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Cheers, Michael

[Michiel Rook]

I hereby nominate Michael Heap for the CC.

regards,

Michiel

[Michael Heap]

Thanks Michiel, I accept the nomination

[Michael Cullum]

Great. Thanks folks

https://gist.github.com/michaelcullum/9f5fd32efce27fb5517dd43bf814f16f

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