We're thrilled to announce that Anton Kurochkin (GitHub ID: @woblerr) has joined Apache Cloudberry as our newest committer! 🎉

Over the past several months, Anton has been an active and impactful contributor to the Cloudberry community, with a particular focus on the cloudberry-backup project and related Go-based tooling. His contributions span a wide range of areas — from roadmap discussions and code improvements to project modernization and community collaboration.

Some highlights of Anton's contributions include:

• Engaging deeply in the cloudberry-backup roadmap discussions, sharing practical operational experience and helping shape the project's direction.
• Contributing gpbackman, a CLI tool for managing gpbackup backups more conveniently.
• Contributing gpbackup_exporter, a Prometheus exporter that collects metrics from gpbackup_history.db.
• Modernizing the Go development infrastructure, including upgrading the Go toolchain from 1.21 to 1.24, updating golangci-lint, and refactoring deprecated syntax and usages across the project.

Anton's work has meaningfully strengthened Cloudberry's backup ecosystem and Go tooling capabilities. His combination of technical depth, practical experience, and community spirit makes him a natural fit for the committer role.

Becoming a committer recognizes both Anton's past contributions and the community's trust in his continued involvement. Committers play an important role in shaping the project by reviewing and merging contributions, participating in design decisions, and helping guide the project's growth.

Please join us in congratulating Anton Kurochkin on this well-deserved recognition. We look forward to his continued contributions and collaboration within the Apache Cloudberry community!

You can find the official announcement on the Apache Cloudberry mailing list.