Wow. This is easily the most welcoming, positive, and intelligent online community of its size that I have ever experienced, and I’m honored and excited to continue serving and representing it in this new role.
In addition to those who took the time to write positive recommendations for me here, I want to explicitly thank the mypy and typeshed folks for guiding my first open-source contributions, Nick for merging my first CPython PR, Steven for taking me on as co-author for PEP 584, Antoine for sponsoring PEP 618, Guido and Pablo for nominating me and committing to a month of mentorship, and Guido again for approving my triage application, sponsoring PEP 614, and nerd-sniping me with what would later become PEP 622.
These were each such great learning experiences that ultimately led me to keep contributing. Now I’m one of the lucky few people in the world with hobbies, employment, and volunteer work that all intersect in this one space. That’s amazing.