Graduate Balasankar C to Maintainer of CNG

Trainee maintainer issue: #10332 (closed)

Overview

• ~5 years at GitLab.
• Existing maintainerships
  • omnibus-gitlab since July 2019
  • PeopleOps Automation since July 2019
  • gitlab-omnibus-builder since September 2019
  • gitlab-build-images since February 2021

Examples of reviews

• Compile gitlab-workhorse from gitlab-rails - #10332 (comment 486007717)
• Gitaly needs to use gitlab-logger - #10332 (comment 635741690)
• [Authored, not reviewed] Review and refine CI

Things to improve

Distribution maintainers please chime in below with your thoughts, and approve this MR if you agree. (cc @twk3 @WarheadsSE)

Developer checklist

• Before this MR is merged
  • Mention existing maintainers
  • Assign this issue to your manager

Manager checklist

• Before this MR is merged
  • The MR has been open for 5 working days
  • More than half of the existing maintainers approve the MR
  • There are no blocking concerns raised (if there are, please follow https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/code-review/#how-to-become-a-project-maintainer)
• After this MR is merged
  • Announce the good news in the relevant channels listed in https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/#keeping-yourself-informed