Merge pull request #7465 from vincepri/vincepri-2023

Add candidate bio for Vince Prignano

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elections/steering/2023/candidate-vincepri.md

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+name: Vince Prignano
+ID: vincepri
+info:
+  - employer: Red Hat
+  - slack: vincepri
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+
+## SIGS
+
+- Co-Chair for SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Cluster API maintainer
+- API Machinery — Controller Runtime maintainer
+
+## What I have done
+
+My technical experience across 10 years focuses on distributed systems,
+linux, networking, and controllers. At my core, I am a generalist that has
+led teams, organizations, and communities through kindness and pragmatism.
+Most recently, I have entered a new chapter in my life becoming a new parent.
+
+In the last five years in Kubernetes include:
+- SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Chair since August 2021
+  - Actively promoted tech leads, and mentoring folks across all subprojects.
+- Cluster API maintainer since 2018
+  - Steered towards production readiness.
+  - Collaborated on major architectures, focused on growing our end-user community,
+    organized meetups, and various talks at KubeCon and other conferences.
+  - Mentored new contributors, reviewers, and maintainers.
+- Controller Runtime and Tools maintainer since 2019
+
+## What I'll do
+
+Kubernetes is a key piece of technology in the cloud native landscape and
+the momentum is at all time high. Kubernetes' best feature is its community,
+people coming from all parts of the world working together.
+
+Through my experience, I tend to bias towards action, kind feedback, and
+thoughtful communications. My background spans distributed scalable services and
+end-user products.
+
+My leadership values:
+
+- Kindess, inclusivity, and community above all.
+- Build for the 80%, make 20% possible.
+- Simple is hard, less is more.
+
+## Resources About Me
+
+- My website: [vincepri.com](https://vincepri.com)
+- [Cluster API Deep-Dive KubeCon NA 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Zb9_Ralb4)
+- [Co-Authored the Cluster API v1 CNCF blog post](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/10/06/kubernetes-cluster-api-reaches-production-readiness-with-version-1-0/)
+- [Cluster API Intro and Deep Dive KubeCon EU 2022](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H8flXm_lKk)