On behalf of the PMC, I'm very happy to announce a new Apache Flink PMC Member - Zakelly Lan.
Zakelly has been a dedicated and invaluable contributor to the Flink community for over five years. He became a committer early 2024 and is one of our most active contributors in the last year. Zakelly's expertise is in Flink state management and checkpointing. He has developed several key features and FLIPs in this area. Notably, he has been the driving force for the "Disaggregated State Management in Flink 2.0" project, making it to a successful completion. Disaggregated State Management is one of the most complicated features and important improvements in 2.0. He contributed and reviewed a significant amount of PRs and has been active both on the mailing lists and in Jira helping to both maintain and grow Apache Flink's community. In addition, Zakelly is the sole maintainer of the Flink benchmark environment and helps monitor performance regressions. Zakelly is also continuously helping to expand the Flink community. At FFA 2024 Asia, his presentation on "Introducing ForSt DB: The Disaggregated State Store for Flink 2.0" was well-received and highlighted his deep technical expertise. Please join me in welcoming and congratulating Zakelly! Best, Yuan Mei (on behalf of the Flink PMC)
