Self-nomination for STC 2025

elections/2025-STC/candidate-whitwaldo.md

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+#### Name
+Whit Waldo
+
+#### Company Affiliation
+Innovian
+
+#### Your work and/or contributions to Dapr
+I've been an active contributor to the Dapr .NET SDK since early 2024. As of late last year, I became the 
+Dapr .NET SDK maintainer and earlier this spring also became the Dapr JS SDK maintainer.
+
+I'm the [top contributor](https://github.com/dapr/dotnet-sdk/graphs/contributors) of all time to the Dapr .NET SDK 
+with over 75k lines of code over nearly 150 commits and have authored several of the Dapr packages:
+- [Dapr.Cryptography](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dapr.Cryptography)
+- [Dapr.Jobs](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dapr.Jobs)
+- [Dapr.Messaging](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dapr.Messaging)
+- [Dapr.AI](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dapr.AI)
+- [Dapr.AI.Microsoft.Extensions](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dapr.AI.Microsoft.Extensions) 
+
+I've also contributed dozens of other bug fixes and features to the remaining core packages. I maintain Dapr's fork of 
+[DurableTask](https://github.com/dapr/durabletask-dotnet) which underpins Dapr Workflows and as a maintainer of the 
+[Aspire.Hosting.Dapr package](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Aspire/blob/a22d4f8fb5f0afba50db170f7f8c01f642e22c8e/CODEOWNERS#L68) 
+in the Aspire community toolkit I've spent time developing solutions to improve the integration between Dapr and 
+Aspire.
+
+I have advocated for and submitted proposals for several key new features in Dapr including:
+- Second-generation [speciality state stores](https://github.com/dapr/dapr/issues/7339)
+including a [centralized cache](https://github.com/dapr/proposals/pull/71), a reimagined 
+[key/value store](https://github.com/dapr/dapr/issues/7338) and a [binary store](https://github.com/dapr/proposals/pull/88).
+- [Actor-based Dynamic PubSub Subscriptions](https://github.com/dapr/proposals/pull/78)
+- [Workflow versioning](https://github.com/dapr/proposals/pull/94)
+
+As an active member in the Dapr Discord channel, I go out of my way to comprehensively answer questions raised by the
+community and to solicit feedback to help with feature prioritization.
+
+#### Why you are running
+Dapr dramatically simplifies the experience of building distributed applications and it's been exciting to design the
+features that keep this project grounded, relevant and usable by the broader community. In today's world of 
+ever-tightening time constraints, I feel that it's important that we focus our time on higher-impact features that
+our broader community has indicated support. We have a broad foundation atop which we can build better cross-block 
+integrations and a rich opportunity to leverage modern tooling to enhance the developer experience.
+
+I'm running because I have a vision to make Dapr best-in-class for polyglot distributed systems development and would 
+like to join like-minded individuals to shape and more effectively realize this dream.