add Bryan Paxton 2024 election candidacy

priv/posts/eef/20240328170016_election-2024.md

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ The election will be open on **April 20 2024**, from 00:00 UTC and for the next
 
 This list will be expanded as new candidacies are received
 - [Kiko Fernandez-Reyes](#kiko-fernandez-reyes)
+- [Bryan Paxton](#bryan-paxton)
 
 <h3 id="kiko-fernandez-reyes">Kiko Fernandez-Reyes</h3>
 
@@ -127,6 +128,20 @@ This list will be expanded as new candidacies are received
 
 Kiko Fernandez-Reyes is member of the OTP team and holds a PhD in Computer Science by Uppsala University, Sweden. His PhD work has received multiple awards (2 Best Paper Awards and 2 Distinguished Artifact Awards) for the technical contributions, documentation, and source code (reproducibility). After his PhD, he worked at Klarna writing services in Haskell and Erlang, and he was a Board Member of the (Typed) Functional community in Klarna. Later on, he moved to Ericsson and tries to improve OTP little by little.
 
-# Why vote for him?
+### Why vote for him?
 
-I have a mixed background between academia and industry. As part of the OTP team, I can act as a bridge between the OTP team and the EEF board as well as working groups. My academic background and connections can bring academics to help us get more innovation for BEAM languages. Innovation can come in several ways, for example, researchers/academic partners looking for more optimised garbage collection algorithms, improvements to success typing theory and practice, improvements to the JIT, or even a more energy efficient virtual machine. All of these things have an impact on all BEAM languages, and the OTP team cannot always do "blind" research on all of these topics. We are as strong as our community.
+I have a mixed background between academia and industry. As part of the OTP team, I can act as a bridge between the OTP team and the EEF board as well as working groups. My academic background and connections can bring academics to help us get more innovation for BEAM languages. Innovation can come in several ways, for example, researchers/academic partners looking for more optimised garbage collection algorithms, improvements to success typing theory and practice, improvements to the JIT, or even a more energy efficient virtual machine. All of these things have an impact on all BEAM languages, and the OTP team cannot always do "blind" research on all of these topics. We are as strong as our community.
+
+<h3 id="bryan-paxton">Bryan Paxton</h3>
+
+<img src="/images/volunteers/bryan-paxton.jpg" width="175" height="175" alt="member photo" />
+
+_outgoing board member_
+
+<br/>
+
+Bryan (a.k.a starbelly) has worked on the BEAM for roughly 8 years at companies utilizing Elixir, but sought to embed himself within the Erlang community at large (LFE, Gleam, etc.). He has a strong sense of community, has a passion for helping people, and chances are he has reached out to try and help you in the past. In his spare time he contributes to Erlang/OTP, Elixir, hex\_core, hexpm, rebar3, and is a co-maintainer of setup-beam, verl, rebar3\_ex\_doc and rebar3\_hex. He also has been an active contributor within the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation shortly after its inception.
+
+### Why vote for him?
+
+As an annual supporting member, an active contributor, and a member of several BEAM communities; I have a vested interest in helping further the foundation's goals and by extension the ecosystem. I bet the farm on the BEAM and as such I make it a point to be highly involved wherever and however I can to assist in furthering the success of the entire community and ecosystem.