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+Hi all,
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy as Tacker PTL for the upcoming
+Stein cycle.
+
+I am Dharmendra Kushwaha known as dkushwaha on IRC. I member of Tacker
+community since Mitaka release. During my journey, I was involved in multiple
+features development activities(like Network Service, alarm based monitoring,
+VNFFG-NS etc.), bug triages, fixes and code improvement activities, verifying
+and testing for team.
+
+It is a great experience for me to working in OpenStack/Tacker project with
+very supportive contributors team. Other than community, I was involved in
+couple of NFV related PoCs and to identify the production gaps in Tacker.
+
+As of now Sridhar and Gong sheng Yang have done a great job with a great team
+support, I have learnt many things from them and would like to serve the
+community on those footprints.
+
+During the journey, Tacker comes with multiple rich features and still growing
+in the same direction. Still we have to do lot more and my main goals of Stein
+are as follow:
+
+* Tacker CI/CD Improvement:
+    - Currently in Tacker more scenarios and proper integration testing is
+      lacking on gate, needs to introduce more coverage.
+    - Focus to introduce more functional and scenario tests for max code
+      coverage.
+    - We have to setup a process where every code should go with proper
+      integration test on gate.
+
+* Tacker stability & production ready:
+    - Identify industries requirements and prioritize their requirements.
+    - Focus to have more error-handling and significant logging.
+    - Cross community contribution for feature integration.
+    - Parallel/large node deployment stability.
+    - More towards NFV-MANO rich features.
+
+* Growing the community with more active core contributors.
+
+* More physical gathering of Tacker team in OpenStack conferences.
+
+You can find my complete contributions here:
+http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&project_type=all&metric=commits&user_id=dharmendra-kushwaha
+
+Thanks for reading and consideration my candidacy.
+
+Thanks & Regards
+Dharmendra Kushwaha
+IRC: dkushwaha