Description:

Hey folks,

I’d like to officially nominate @sudiptob2 as a reviewer for Envoy Gateway.

@sudiptob2 has made sustained, high-quality contributions across features, bug fixes, CI, fuzzing, and docs. Highlights below show the breadth and impact of his work

Multi-area contributions: authoring API features, operational improvements, CI/test reliability fixes, and fuzzing infrastructure.
Quality and stability focus: multiple fixes.
Infrastructure and testing improvements that reduce developer pain and increase test coverage.
Regular participation in community meetings, reviews and repository maintenance.
Some highlights

#6956 — feat: add compressor field to configure compression setting in BackendTrafficPolicy — adds API surface to control compression behavior.
#7269 — feat: increase maximum limit for global rate limit rules to 128 — increases configuration limits for rate limiting.
#6682 — api: add custom timeout for external auth service — enables per-auth-service timeout configuration.
#6421 — fix: Do not set backendRequestTimeout when Retries are set — fixes timeout/retry interaction that could cause unexpected behavior.
#6951 — Fix: Add missing patch annotations to Compression struct for proper Merge — correctness fix, cherrypicked to release branches.
#6488 — feat: admin and metrics server hot reloading on config change — improves operational ergonomics.
#6368 — test(ci): Install and run docker-mac-net-connect when running e2e on macos — improves CI reliability on macOS.
Fuzzing & test infrastructure: numerous PRs (#5493, #5471, #5986, #5854, #6101, #5947, #5904, #5628, #5624, #5568) that add fuzzers, OSS-Fuzz infra, seed corpora, and docs — these increase safety and coverage for translation and runtime behavior.