TOF elections for 2026H1

[Deepak Kodihalli]

> With this being the most nominated-for election in TOF history, I would
> strongly encourage candidates to reply to this email with a [brief]
> campaign: who are you, what work have you done for the community, why do
> you want to be on the TOF, etc.

Hi,

I'm Deepak Kodihalli. I work as a BMC engineer at Nvidia, focused on OpenBMC.
I've been associated with the OpenBMC project for 8+ years (hiatus during
2022-2024), and have a broad range of contributions to the project [1]. I
implemented the initial PLDM stack. I co-maintain pldm, phosphor-logging and
phosphor-settingsd. I'm a contributing author for some of the standard
PLDM specs.

My recent contributions are in the areas of phosphor-dbus-interfaces,
pldm reviews
and the Nvidia GPU dbus-sensors app. I'm also working on getting MCTP over USB
patches merged across a few repos.

I would like to be on the TOF to provide input on/contribute to the areas of:
- Anything related to PLDM
- DBus Interfaces guidelines
- Ideas to improve rework/review times
- Improving code coverage

[1] https://gerrit.openbmc.org/q/owner:deepak.kodihalli.83@gmail.com

Thanks,
Deepak