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+Hello everyone!
+
+I want to nominate myself for the Technical Committee.
+
+I started contributing to the OpenStack community in 2014, primarily
+as a core reviewer and contributor for TripleO CI and as an RPM packager
+for RDO and Fedora Community.
+
+I was the OpenStack community goal champion for the Queens release for
+splitting tempest plugins into separate repos. Apart from that I also
+helped in improving the testing experience between TripleO and
+openstack-ansible projects via reusing the same tooling and collaboration.
+I also helped in CentOS Stream 8 to 9 bootstrapping for OpenStack by
+collaborating with CentOS and RDO community.
+
+My work is mostly focused on improving OpenStack installation and testing
+for end users via CI as well as improving contributions within
+the RDO community.
+
+I would like to share the above experience with the OpenStack community to
+improve the end user's experience by doing an early collaboration
+with different communities.
+
+I understand that this role requires a lot of learning and experience.
+I will be very happy to take this opportunity,  and willing to learn and
+contribute to the TC as much as possible.
+
+Thanks,
+
+Chandan Kumar (chandankumar)