Add Contributor Spotlight with Ying Zhu (#322)

* Add Contributor Spotlight with Ying Zhu

Signed-off-by: Floor Drees <floordrees@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Silvela <jaime.silvela@enterprisedb.com>

Author: FloorD

content/blog/contributor-highlight-floor-drees/index.md

@@ -34,17 +34,17 @@ certainly at KubeCon Europe this April there was a high concentration of them
 in host city London! These days, Floor gets to work with the project's 
 maintainers directly.
 
-My contributions to the project are mostly in communication and community. 
+"My contributions to the project are mostly in communication and community. 
 I talk to end-users and write about their use case, I find events for us to 
-speak at, and I interview people for this series!
+speak at, and I interview people for this series!"
 
 One question we like to ask is: if you had all the time/skills/money in the 
 world, what would you most like to change about CloudNativePG? Floor's answer 
 is this: "I'd like to onboard more contributors to the project and make sure 
 they feel enabled to take on more impactful roles. And also just for everyone 
 to get a chance to meet the other members. I'm trying with the idea of 
 organizing a contributor summit around PGDay Napoli in September, since so 
-many of our maintainers are based in Italy anyway.
+many of our maintainers are based in Italy anyway."
 
 What first got Floor into technology was her blog. To bend the WordPress beast 
 to her will, she had to learn just enough PHP to copy and paste code snippets 

content/blog/contributor-highlight-ying-zhu/index.md

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+---
+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Floor Drees"
+date: 2025-07-01
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: ying.jpeg
+    attribution:
+author: fdrees
+tags:
+ - minecraft
+ - lfx
+ - mentorship
+ - kubernetes
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+ - spotlight
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet Ying Zhu, student at Carnegie Mellon University, and CNCF 
+  mentee." 
+---
+
+Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
+mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
+maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
+
+This week the spotlight shines on Ying Zhu ([EdwinaZhu on GitHub](https://github.com/EdwinaZhu)), student at Carnegie 
+Mellon University, graduating next year (if all goes well, ofcourse). In June 
+2024 Ying graduated from Nanjing University a Bachelor of Science (Computer 
+Science).
+
+Ying joined the CloudNativePG project as a mentee through the [LFX program](https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/lfx-cncf-mentorship/). 
+LFX Mentorship is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation mentorship platform that 
+spans across the CNCF projects. More than 190 mentees have been accepted since 
+the programs started in 2019, participating in 96 mentorship programs. Ying will 
+be working with [Gabriele Bartolini](https://github.com/gbartolini), [Leonardo Cecchi](https://github.com/leonardoce), [Marco Nenciarini](https://github.com/mnencia), 
+and [Armando Ruocco](https://github.com/armru). When browsing CNCF projects to contribute to, 
+CloudNativePG's focus on Postgres and Kubernetes immediately caught her interest 
+since she's already involved in those communities.
+
+She's currently working on implementing declarative support for managing 
+PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers (FDWs) through the Database custom resource. 
+"First I'm focused on learning and understanding the system deeply. It's still 
+in progress, but I'm learning a lot and enjoying every step!"
+
+Ying is especially interested in areas like extensibility, observability, and 
+making it easier for users to declaratively manage PostgreSQL features. We're 
+looking forward to more contributions to the project in those areas by Ying!
+
+What first got Ying in technology was playing Minecraft. "I was the leader of 
+the Minecraft club during my undergraduate years. It was so much fun to program 
+mods and set up multiplayer servers for others to enjoy. This led me to pursue 
+a path in programming technology."
+
+After graduation, Ying would love to work as an infrastructure engineer,
+on scalable and reliable systems. And keep contributing to open-source tools that 
+power modern cloud-native applications, as that's her passion!
+
+If you want to get in touch with Ying, you can find her in the 
+CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yingzhu03/). You can follow the CloudNativePG project on [Bluesky](https://cloudnativepg.bsky.social) and [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@CloudNativePG) too!