Pandas Steering Committee nominations

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This issue includes the nominations and bios for the initial pandas steering committee (one post per nominee).

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Irv Lustig (@Dr-Irv)

Irv Lustig (Dr-Irv) has been on the pandas core team since August, 2020.  His main contributions to the pandas project have been to being the lead maintainer of the pandas-stubs repository, drafting the new governance documents and the pandas cheat sheet.  Having developed software for almost 50 years and having management experience in the commercial software industry, he looks to bring his experience to the Steering Committee to keep pandas a key part of the python ecosystem.

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Joris Van den Bossche (@jorisvandenbossche)

TBD

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Will Ayd (@WillAyd)

Will Ayd has been a core maintainer of the pandas project since 2018, and has also served as a Committer to the Apache Arrow project since 2024. Will's contributions to the pandas project include improvements to the SQL, Excel, and JSON I/O modules, modernization of the build system, simplification of the C-extensions, and general improvements to overall performance. Through his contributions to the arrow-adbc and nanoarrow projects, Will has helped make pandas interoperate more efficiently and effectively with other dataframe libraries and analytical tools in the Apache Arrow ecosystem.

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Matthew Roeschke (@mroeschke)

Matthew has been contributing to pandas since 2016 and have been on the core team since 2017. He has over 1700 commits to the project and has contributed to all aspects of the codebase. As part of his job at Nvidia, he's committed to see the continued growth and progression of the project.

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Richard Shadrach (@rhshadrach)

Since the spring of 2020, Richard has authored approximately 400 merged PRs, been involved in discussions of 900 others, and involved in the discussions on 1700 issues. In addition, he's been part of the governance team and regularly hosts the new contributors meetings.