REQUEST: New membership for princepereira

[princepereira]

GitHub Username

@princepereira

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kubernetes

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Sponsor 1

@sbangari

Sponsor 2

@danwinship

List of contributions to the Kubernetes project

PRs I Reviewed in Kubernetes

• Reviewed, tested, and provided feedback on Topology Aware Routing for Windows kube-proxy (PR #137953).
• Reviewed and participated in discussions around HNS policy cleanup and endpoint lifecycle handling (PR #137530).
• Participated in reviews and design discussions for KEP-5343 / kube-proxy out-of-tree initiative and related kube-proxy backend modernization efforts.
• Regularly reviewed and validated contributions from SIG-Windows community members related to Windows networking, kube-proxy, HNS, topology-aware routing, observability, and endpoint management.

PRs I Authored in Kubernetes

Windows Kube-Proxy Features & Enhancements

• PR #111031 - Mock and unit test cases for Windows kube-proxy.
• PR #113742 - Creating Ingress IP load balancer when all endpoints are terminating.
• PR #114407 - Windows kube-proxy InternalTrafficPolicy implementation.
• PR #120105 - New mock testing framework for Windows kube-proxy.
• PR #124092 - Add ModifyLoadBalancer API support to Windows kube-proxy.
• PR #128228 - Introduce L4Proxy support in Windows kube-proxy.

HNS / HNSLib Integration

• PR #127628 - Integrate hnslib with Kubernetes.
• PR #128045 - Replace hcsshim networking dependencies with hnslib.
• PR #135843 - Update vendored hnslib to v0.1.2.

Windows Networking Bug Fixes

• PR #115503 - Fix missing load balancer policies for IPv6 endpoints in dual-stack mode.
• PR #115919 - Fix Windows kube-proxy ExternalTrafficPolicy issue.
• PR #131138 - Fix HNS local endpoint being deleted instead of the remote endpoint.
• PR #133953 - Fix ClusterIP load balancer deletion with InternalTrafficPolicy=Local.
• PR #138000 - Fix duplicate endpoint issue by deleting remote endpoint when local and remote endpoints share the same IP.
• PR #139503 - Handle HNS restart failures and load balancer recreation issues.

Observability

• PR #137767 - Add Prometheus metrics for Windows kube-proxy load balancer failures.

Refactoring

• PR #133420 - Windows kube-proxy refactoring work.

Release Backports / Cherry Picks

• PRs #114466, #114467, #114468.
• PRs #114451, #114452, #114453.
• PRs #115614, #115615, #115616.
• PRs #115999, #116000, #116001.
• PRs #134031, #134032, #134033, #134034
• PRs #138601, #138602, #138603.

Issues I Responded To / Authored

• Issue #115501 - IPv6 load balancer policy creation issue in dual-stack mode.
• Issue #120200 - Remove dependency on HNS in Windows kube-proxy tests.
• Issue #130963 - HNS endpoint creation failure after remote endpoint conflicts.
• Issue #135747 - Update vendored hnslib version in Kubernetes.
• Issue #136240 - PreferredDualStack / RequireDualStack service programming issues.
• Issue #137381 - Intermittent DNS issues on Kubernetes Windows clusters (>1.30).
• Issue #137766 - Add Prometheus metrics for Windows kube-proxy load balancer failures.
• Issue #137577 - Windows load balancer creation failures reported by GKE users.
• Issue #139519 - Windows kube-proxy fails to recreate load balancer after HNS restart.

SIG Projects I Am Involved With

• SIG-Windows
• SIG-Network

[danwinship]

+1. @princepereira is effectively the maintainer of pkg/proxy/winkernel