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Customer Advisory Board Nomination Template

Use this template to nominate yourself or someone else for the Fawkes Customer Advisory Board

Nomination Information

Nominee Name: [Your Name or Person Being Nominated]

Nominee GitHub Username: [@username]

Nominee Company/Organization: [Organization Name]

Nominee Role/Title: [e.g., Principal Platform Engineer, DevOps Lead]

Nominator Name (if different): [Your Name]

Nominator Relationship (if applicable): [e.g., Colleague, Community Member, Self]

Fawkes Experience

How long have you/they been using Fawkes? [e.g., 6 months]

Deployment Stage:

  • [ ] Production
  • [ ] Staging/Pre-production
  • [ ] Development/POC
  • [ ] Evaluating

Primary Use Cases: [e.g., Multi-team platform engineering, DORA metrics tracking, GitOps deployment]

Fawkes Components Used (check all that apply):

  • [ ] Backstage (Developer Portal)
  • [ ] ArgoCD (GitOps)
  • [ ] Jenkins (CI/CD)
  • [ ] Observability Stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo)
  • [ ] Security Scanning (SonarQube, Trivy)
  • [ ] Vault (Secrets Management)
  • [ ] Other: **___**

Background and Qualifications

Organization Size:

  • [ ] Startup (1-50 employees)
  • [ ] Small (51-200 employees)
  • [ ] Medium (201-1000 employees)
  • [ ] Large (1001-5000 employees)
  • [ ] Enterprise (5000+ employees)

Industry/Vertical: [e.g., FinTech, Healthcare, E-commerce, SaaS, etc.]

Geographic Region: [e.g., North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific]

Team Size: [e.g., Platform engineering team of 8 people supporting 50+ developers]

Years of Platform Engineering / DevOps Experience: [e.g., 7 years]

Relevant Experience (check all that apply):

  • [ ] Platform Engineering
  • [ ] DevOps Leadership
  • [ ] Site Reliability Engineering
  • [ ] Infrastructure Engineering
  • [ ] Developer Experience
  • [ ] Engineering Management
  • [ ] Other: **___**

Community Involvement

Current Fawkes Community Participation (check all that apply):

  • [ ] GitHub Issues (opened or commented)
  • [ ] GitHub Discussions participation
  • [ ] Pull Requests contributed
  • [ ] Mattermost participation
  • [ ] Documentation contributions
  • [ ] New user - minimal participation so far
  • [ ] Other: **___**

Examples of Participation (optional): [Links to issues, PRs, discussions, or brief description]

Advisory Board Fit

Why are you interested in joining the Customer Advisory Board? [200-300 words describing motivation, what you hope to contribute, and what you hope to gain]

What unique perspective would you bring to the board? [e.g., Specific industry vertical, unique use case, organization size, geographic region, technical expertise]

Specific areas where you'd like to provide input (check all that apply):

  • [ ] Platform architecture and design
  • [ ] Developer experience and self-service capabilities
  • [ ] DORA metrics and observability
  • [ ] Security and compliance
  • [ ] Multi-cloud strategy
  • [ ] Documentation and learning resources
  • [ ] Community building
  • [ ] Enterprise adoption
  • [ ] Specific technical domain: **___**

Can you commit to the quarterly time requirement (4-6 hours per quarter)?

  • [ ] Yes
  • [ ] No
  • [ ] Need more information

Availability

Preferred Meeting Times (for quarterly calls):

  • [ ] US Morning (9-11 AM ET)
  • [ ] US Afternoon (2-4 PM ET)
  • [ ] Europe Morning (9-11 AM CET)
  • [ ] Europe Afternoon (2-4 PM CET)
  • [ ] Asia-Pacific (flexible)
  • [ ] Flexible - can accommodate most times

Any scheduling constraints? [e.g., Cannot do Mondays, prefer afternoons, etc.]

Additional Information

Have you used other Internal Developer Platforms? (optional) [e.g., Yes - Humanitec, Spotify Backstage standalone, custom in-house platform]

Public Speaking / Writing Experience? (optional) [e.g., Spoke at KubeCon, published blog posts on platform engineering]

Anything else you'd like us to know? [Open field for any additional context]

References

Can we contact you for a 30-minute intro call if we'd like to learn more?

  • [ ] Yes
  • [ ] No

Preferred Contact Method:

  • [ ] GitHub (mention @username)
  • [ ] Email: **___**
  • [ ] Mattermost: **___**
  • [ ] LinkedIn: **___**

Agreement

By submitting this nomination, I/the nominee:

  • [ ] Acknowledge the time commitment of 4-6 hours per quarter
  • [ ] Agree to keep pre-release information confidential when applicable
  • [ ] Understand there is no monetary compensation
  • [ ] Commit to providing constructive, respectful feedback
  • [ ] Have read the Customer Advisory Board Charter

Submission Date: [YYYY-MM-DD]

For Admin Use Only

Review Date:

Reviewer:

Status:

  • [ ] Under Review
  • [ ] Interview Scheduled
  • [ ] Approved - Onboarding
  • [ ] Not Selected - Reason: **___**
  • [ ] Waitlist

Notes: