New committer: Bowen Liang

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Kyuubi has invited Bowen Liang to become our committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Bowen Liang is currently working on GF Securities, he focuses on security areas, including

• Authz module, he is the most active contributor to this module
• JDBC-based authentication mechanism
• Asymmetric encryption signature mechanism
• Support Kyuubi as a Spark JDBC datasource
• Promoting Kyuubi by sharing a talk on Datafun
• Continuously infrastructure improvements

Please join me in congratulating Bowen!

Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better productivity. A PMC member helps manage and guide the direction of the project.