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+# Quinton Hoole
+
+- Github: [quinton-hoole](https://github.com/quinton-hoole)
+
+# About Me
+
+Currently I'm Technical Vice President of Cloud Computing At Huawei
+Technologies (185,000 employees globally, US$75BN annual revenue
+(2016), 32% annual revenue growth).
+
+I was the founding engineer of Amazon EC2 (2005-2010).
+
+I was the lead engineer at Nimbula.com (2010-2012), a Cloud IaaS
+startup which was acquired by Oracle in 2013.
+
+I was at Google from 2012-2016, first as Technical Lead and Manager of
+Ads Serving SRE, and then Engineering Lead on the Kubernetes team
+(2014-2016).
+
+Prior to 2005, I co-founded two startups (one in the online travel
+industry, the other in financial services), on both of which I served
+as lead techie until they were acquired by public companies.  I have
+also worked as a consultant, contractor and technical leader in the
+telco, financial and retail industries.
+
+I have an M.Sc in Computer Science.
+
+# Highlights of What I've done on Kubernetes thus far
+
+Initially I led the effort to get our CI Testing stuff initiated and
+[working effectively](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/writing-good-e2e-tests.md), which was critical to being able to launch v1.0 successfully,
+way back in July 2015.  Around that time I handed it over to the now-famous SIG-Testing.
+
+After that I initiated and led the [Cluster
+Federation](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/federation/federation.md)
+effort, which has spilled over and touched many aspects of Kubernetes
+in one way or another (API, Networking, Security, Scalability, Resiliency,
+Testing etc).
+
+Along the way I also helped the [Scalability folks to set some key
+objectives](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-scalability/goals.md).
+
+# How I Hope to Serve You on the Steering Committee
+
+I am a strong believer that Cloud Computing will change the world
+(even more so than it already has), and that Kubernetes is the next
+big step in this exciting journey.
+
+To realize this potential, I believe that we need to create both a
+thriving, collaborative community, and freaking awesome software that
+people love to use, everywhere.  We're doing pretty well in both of
+these areas, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.  So I'd
+like to offer my broad and deep experience, time and passion to help
+us to get there.  Hopefully my track record will help to convince you
+that I'm fairly good at identifying good things for us to do, figuring
+out how best to do them, and getting them done.  Along the way I have
+accumulated more than a few scuffs and bruises, as well as a few
+victories, so hopefully I can help us to avoid some of the former.
+
+More specifically, I'd like to help us to (amongst others):
+
+- ensure that Kubernetes remains a fun place to develop stuff that
+  people love to use.
+- create effective incentives to motivate constructive, productive
+  and sustainable progress.
+- protect what we have built (and will build) from bad things happening.