REQUEST: New membership for akats7

[akats7]

GitHub Username

@akats7

Requirements

• [X ] I have reviewed the community membership guidelines (https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/community-membership.md)
• [X ] I have enabled 2FA on my GitHub account. See https://github.com/settings/security
• [ X] I have subscribed to the Slack channel (use https://slack.cncf.io/ to get an invite)
• [ X] I am actively contributing to 1 or more OpenTelemetry subprojects
• [ X] I have two sponsors that meet the sponsor requirements listed in the community membership guidelines. Among other requirements, sponsors must be approvers or maintainers of at least one repository in the organization and not both affiliated with the same company
• [ X] I have spoken to my sponsors ahead of this application, and they have agreed to sponsor my application

Sponsors

• @djaglowski
• @breedx-splk

Each sponsor should reply to this issue with the comment "I support".
Please remember, it is an applicant's responsibility to get their sponsors' confirmation before submitting the request.

List of contributions to the OpenTelemetry project

PRs

Collector Contrib
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#28818
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#29557
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#30019
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#21726
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#22726

Java Contrib/ Instrumentation
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib#1102
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#7557
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib#960
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib#926
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java#5662

[djaglowski]

I support!

[breedx-splk]

I support!

[bogdandrutu]

Invite sent