docs(blog): add contributor highlight with Daniel Chambre (#287)

Signed-off-by: Floor Drees <[email protected]>

Author: FloorD

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+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Daniel Chambre"
+date: 2025-04-28T14:51:43+02:00
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: daniel.jpg
+    attribution:
+author: fdrees
+tags:
+ - kubernetes
+ - service-mesh
+ - dba
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet Daniel Chambre (aka smiyc), a DBA at WienIT."
+---
+
+Building and maintaining and open source project takes a village. In a
+mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
+maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
+
+
+Today we're meeting Daniel Chambre, better known under his handle: 
+[smiyc](https://github.com/smiyc/). Daniel is a DBA at WienIT, working part 
+remotely from "the outskirts of Vienna". He first learned about CNP, EDB's 
+Kubernetes operator for Postgres, in late 2021. The CloudNativePG project was 
+spun off not much later. 
+
+Daniel first got involved with the project back in November 2022, by starting 
+a discussion around how the controller manager demanded pvc resizing which 
+was unsupported by the storageclass. He's been active in the project and the 
+project's Slack channel(s) ever since. This is the first open-source community 
+Daniel has been an active part of.
+
+What got Daniel interested in technology in the first place was "fixing broken 
+stuff", like VCRs, with his dad, and also a Commodore 64 (giving away his 
+age there). Later Daniel got into PS2 soldering shenanigans. 
+
+What he wishes hardest for that would get implemented in CloudNativePG are 
+automated switchover / failover, to distributed replica cluster via service 
+mesh. If only the maintainers would read this blog!
+
+If you wanted to get in touch with Daniel, you can find him in the 
+CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace!