REQUEST: New membership for @aleskandro

[aleskandro]

GitHub Username

@aleskandro

Organization you are requesting membership in

kubernetes

Requirements

• I have reviewed the community membership guidelines
• I have enabled 2FA on my GitHub account
• I have subscribed to the kubernetes dev e-mail list
• I am actively contributing to 1 or more Kubernetes subprojects
• I have two sponsors that meet the sponsor requirements listed in the community membership guidelines
• I have spoken to my sponsors ahead of this application, and they have agreed to sponsor my application
• I have verified that my sponsors are from different member companies
• I have verified that my sponsors are a reviewer or an approver in at least one OWNERS file within one of the Kubernetes GitHub organizations (excluding the contributor-playground)
• SUGGESTED: Ensure your affiliation in gitdm is up to date (gitdm is used by devstats to track affiliation)
• SUGGESTED: Ensure your affiliation in openprofile.dev is up to date (used by LFX Insights to track affiliation, will replace gitdm in the future)
• SUGGESTED: I have taken the Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation course

Sponsor 1

@elmiko

Sponsor 2

@jackfrancis

List of contributions to the Kubernetes project

Pull Requests:

• Clarify expiration time for service accounts and tokens of pods pending deletion despite finalizers website#47404

• The autoscaler does not scale node groups on non-amd64 clusters when pods explicitly require non-amd64 nodes in node affinity autoscaler#6066

• Automated cherry pick of #118053: Updating the nodeAffinity of gated pods having nil affinity kubernetes#118199

• Updating the nodeAffinity of gated pods having nil affinity should be allowed kubernetes#118053

• Fix the buildTemplateLabels method for the ClusterApi provider autoscaler#5697

• (shipwright-io) Native multi-arch ClusterBuildStrategy shipwright-io/build#1634

• (shipwright-io) Documentation for the multiarch-native-buildah ClusterStrategy shipwright-io/build#1660

Issues:

• Multi-arch enablement for default templates  kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder#2850
• The autoscaler does not scale node groups on non-amd64 clusters when pods explicitly require non-amd64 nodes in node affinity autoscaler#6064
• Updating the nodeAffinity of gated pods having nil affinity is not allowed kubernetes#118052

SIGs:

Initial contributions and participation to meetings of:

• sig-autoscaling
• sig-scheduling

[elmiko]

+1, i've worked with Alessandro on several commits for the autoscaler, cloud-provider, and cluster-api providers, happy to have him join.

[jackfrancis]

+1, the list of contributions referenced in this issue demonstrate expertise across a varety of k8s projects, it's great to see @aleskandro formalize his commitment to the project!