🎉🎉🎉🎉 On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM Yi Hu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congrats Claude! > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM Joey Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Congrats Claude!! >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM Ahmed Abualsaud via dev < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Congrats Claude! >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM Radek Stankiewicz via dev < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Congrats Claude! >>>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM Danny McCormick via dev < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Please join me and the rest of the Beam PMC in welcoming a new >>>>> committer: Claude van der Merwe ([email protected])! >>>>> >>>>> Claude has been contributing to Beam since 2024. During that time, he >>>>> significantly improved the Python SDK and Beam's ML offerings, including >>>>> authoring the bulk of Beam's embedding primitives. Recently, he completed >>>>> our tricky migration to Cloudpickle, a project we'd attempted a few times >>>>> before 😅. Beyond code, Claude has pushed Beam forward with his >>>>> contributions on the mailing list and talks at Beam Summit [2] and Beam >>>>> College. >>>>> >>>>> Considering his contributions to the project over this timeframe, the >>>>> Beam PMC trusts Claude with the responsibilities of a Beam committer. [3] >>>>> >>>>> Thank you Claude, we are looking to see more of your contributions! >>>>> >>>>> Danny, on behalf of the Apache Beam PMC >>>>> >>>>> [1] >>>>> https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/rag >>>>> [2] >>>>> https://beamsummit.org/sessions/2025/introduction-to-the-apache-beam-rag-package/ >>>>> [3] >>>>> https://beam.apache.org/contribute/become-a-committer/#an-apache-beam-committer >>>>> >>>>
