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    "name": "Himanshu Verma",
    "email": "himnshuverma10152006@gmail.com",
    "description": "Open-source infrastructure engineer based in India. I'm a maintainer and Technical Committee member of CNCF Kepler, where I own GPU support, the Helm manifests, e2e tests and CI. I also contribute to Apache HugeGraph (95 merged PRs across Apache repos), where I wrote the distributed-mode Helm chart and fixed bugs in its consensus, storage and auth layers. I'm independent: no company pays me for this work.",
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      "description": "Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter. Measures energy use at node, pod, container, VM and process level and exports it as Prometheus metrics. I'm a maintainer and TC member (voted in: https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler/pull/2550) and work on GPU (NVIDIA NVML) support, Helm manifests, e2e tests, CI and releases.",
      "webpageUrl": {
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      },
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      "tags": ["kubernetes", "observability", "energy", "sustainability", "cloud-native", "golang"]
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      "guid": "apache-hugegraph",
      "name": "Apache HugeGraph",
      "description": "Distributed graph database under the Apache Software Foundation. I contribute to its distributed mode: the Kubernetes Helm chart, PD and Store recovery, readiness checks and auth.",
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        "url": "https://hugegraph.apache.org"
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        "type": "bank",
        "description": "Indian bank account. Please email me for details."
      },
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        "type": "payment-provider",
        "address": "https://github.com/sponsors/bitflicker64",
        "description": "GitHub Sponsors."
      }
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        "name": "Kepler maintainer fellowship (6 months)",
        "description": "Six months of dedicated maintainer time on Kepler: GPU support, e2e tests, CI and releases. In the past year I'm #3 of 94 active Kepler contributors (346 contributions, 9%): https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/kepler/contributors?timeRange=past365days&start=2025-11-10&end=2026-11-10 The same LFX page flags that Kepler mainly relies on two companies; I'm an independent maintainer, so funding me directly reduces that risk. I'll post a quarterly update on the FOSS United forum.",
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        "frequency": "one-time",
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      },
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        "description": "Ongoing Kepler maintenance: PR reviews, releases, CI and user issues. Any number of months helps.",
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        "currency": "INR",
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        "channels": ["bank"]
      },
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        "status": "active",
        "name": "Sponsor my open-source work",
        "description": "Any amount, through GitHub Sponsors.",
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