[Promote To I Dan] Referendum #92

Hi! I'm Alin and I've been working for Parity in the Parachains core team since June 2023.
I would like to join Polkadot's technical fellowship as a 1st dan member.
My notable contributions have been centered around a couple of topics:

• Availability-recovery subsystem

  • refactor of the availability-recovery susbsystem to allow for future extensibility: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1457
  • Impl of availability-recovery from systematic chunks: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1644
  • Systematic recovery RFC: RFC#47
  • small cumulus pov recovery optimisation: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2287

• Improving performance of reed-solomon erasure coding

  • root-caused the big reported performance advantage of the C++ reed-solomon implementation: https://github.com/paritytech/reed-solomon-novelpoly/issues/14
  • various performance optimisations and house-keeping: https://github.com/paritytech/reed-solomon-novelpoly/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+author%3Aalindima

• Elastic scaling:

  • provisioner support: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3233
  • prospective-parachains support: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3160
  • relay-chain runtime dependency tracking and enactment of candidates: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3479
  • co-authored https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3231

• other:

  • Implement fallback request-response protocol in substrate: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2771
  • Adding NodeFeatures support to the runtime as a means of coordinating feature enablement: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2177
  • Moving the min backing votes threshold to the runtime
  • https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/14689
  • https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/7457

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