[technology-pmc] Committer Election for Rahil Shah on Eclipse OpenJ9 has

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A committer election for Rahil Shah on project Eclipse OpenJ9
(technology.openj9) was started by Daryl Maier with this criteria:

Rahil Shah has been an active contributor to the Eclipse OpenJ9 project since
2017.

Rahil is the Z processor architecture code generator and performance lead
within IBM for Eclipse OpenJ9. He provides deep technical knowledge of Z
architecture, Z performance, Z calling conventions, and design and
implementation details of the OpenJ9 JIT Z code generator and supporting
optimizations. Within IBM he leads a team that has been responsible for
delivering support for the z16 processor into OpenJ9, and will be responsible
for exploitation of any future processors. In the OpenJ9 community, Rahil is
the first point of contact for Z JIT issues and problem investigation. Rahil
is also an expert in the OpenJ9 JIT-induced profiling feature that boosts
cross-platform performance at higher optimization levels, and he is presently
working on a means to efficiently enable the technology to derive the same
benefits at lower optimization levels (thereby improving startup
performance). In addition, Rahil is currently ensuring that OpenJ9 CRIU
support is properly enabled and supported on Z.

Rahil has contributed 74 pull requests [1] to the project and has repeatedly
demonstrated thoroughness in his implementation and quality assurance of each
of those commits. He is a regular participant in the weekly OpenJ9 Community
Call, and he monitors and provides responses to questions asked on the
Eclipse OpenJ9 Slack workspace particularly in areas dealing with Z
architecture, Linux on Z, z/OS, or JIT profiling. Rahil has formally reviewed
67 pull requests [2] and has been indirectly involved in shaping many others.
His review comments are provided in a timely fashion when requested and
always reflect professionalism and respect for other contributors.

Rahil has also been an advocate for sharing OpenJ9 technology and growing its
adoption.  He presented a vitality talk on JIT profiling [3], co-authored an
exhibit at ECOOP’19 on the JIT profiling technology [4], and he has
mentored students on a CANOSP project to develop an OpenJ9 debug agent to
help locate JITed methods responsible for compilation failures [5].

I believe Rahil is a deserving committer for the Eclipse OpenJ9 project.

[1]
https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ar30shah+is%3Amerged
[2]
https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/pulls?q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3Ar30shah+-author%3Ar30shah
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSlLZlOErvc
[4] https://2021.icse-conferences.org/people-index/ecoop-2019
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X82npmsZeis

Eclipse OpenJ9 project committers can click the election link below to vote.

Election:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.openj9/elections/election-rahil-shah-committer-eclipse-openj9

Project: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.openj9