Dear TAG Observability Liaisons and all TOC members,

We the co-chairs and technical lead for TAG Observability nominate Alolita Sharma, (CC’ed) as the third co-chair for TAG Observability. She has confirmed her interest, passion and that she will be able to invest sufficient time and priority to this role.

Most of you will know her from her work on the Governing Board of OpenTelemetry, Wikipedia, and Unicode.

Her words follow:

Alolita is Principal Technologist at AWS where she leads open source observability strategy and engineering for OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Cortex and Grafana. In OpenTelemetry, she leads the interoperability workgroup ensuring OpenTelemetry protocol and metrics implementation are fully compatible with Prometheus. Alolita also serves as a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and as a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She contributes to open standards on the Unicode Technical Committee and W3C. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has built and led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. You can find her on Twitter @alolita.

Please consider our nomination of Alolita Sharma as a TAG Observability co-chair. Alolita’s vision, domain expertise and perspective will be invaluable to the TAG, it’s growing community and the TOC.

We ask that you formally vote and invite the wider community to support this nomination with non-binding votes.

Matt Young & Richard Hartmann

Co-Chairs, CNCF TAG Observability