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+---
+author: catherine
+date: 2023-07-25T00:00:00Z
+title: Announcing the July 2023 Linkerd Hero!
+description: |-
+  The votes are in! This month's Linkerd Hero is Mikael Fridh for fixing an
+  incompatibility between Linkerd's CNI plugin and newer versions of EKS's
+  VPC CNI plugin.
+featuredImage: '/uploads/2023/07/mikael-fridh-featured.png'
+thumbnail: '/uploads/2023/07/mikael-fridh-hero-square.png'
+tags:
+  - Community
+  - Hero
+items:
+  -
+keywords: [hero, community, contributor, code]
+---
+
+## Announcing July's Linkerd Hero
+
+We are excited to announce this month's Linkerd Hero: Mikael Fridh.
+Congrats, Mikael!
+
+## What are Linkerd Heroes?
+
+Linkerd Heroes are community members who best represent the spirit of the
+Linkerd community. Whether it's helping others, answering questions, sharing
+their successes (and failures!) with the world at large, or contributing code
+or docs, Linkerd Heroes are instrumental in making the Linkerd community the
+amazing place it is today.
+
+## Congrats, Mikael!
+
+This month's hero is [Mikael Fridh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaelfridh/).
+Mikael reported an incompatibility between Linkerd's CNI plugin and newer
+versions of EKS's VPC CNI plugin. He demonstrated great domain insight by
+quickly providing a succinct fix, that we immediately incorporated into the
+2.12 and 2.13 branches of Linkerd. Thank you, Mikael, for helping rapidly
+fixing issues, improving everyone's Linkerd experience!
+
+![Mikael Fridh](/uploads/2023/07/mikael-fridh-hero.png)
+
+## Nominate next month's Linkerd Hero
+
+Linkerd Heroes take many forms. Perhaps someone has answered your or the
+community’s pressing questions on Slack. Maybe you've read a blog post or
+watched a conference talk that helped spur your decision-making process or
+advance your Linkerd implementation. Or perhaps someone contributed an awesome
+Linkerd feature or bugfix that has made your life a lot easier.
+
+Who is your Linkerd Hero? [Submit your nomination for next month's hero
+here!](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNv--UnbbZSzW7J3SbREIMI-HaooyX9im8yLIGB7M_LKT_Fw/viewform?usp=sf_link)
+
+For those who nominated someone, thank you for participating!

linkerd.io/content/blog/_index.md

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   - Tutorials & How-To's
   - Video
 items:
+  - blog/2023/0725-linkerd-hero.md
   - blog/2023/0720-flat-networks.md
-  - blog/2023/0713-linkerd-in-production.md
 description: Read the latest blog posts covering the Linkerd service mesh, from technical tutorials to announcements to what’s next on the roadmap.
 keywords: []
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linkerd.io/content/heroes/_index.md

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 voted:
   badge: "/uploads/credly-badges_voted.svg"
   heroes:
+  - name: Mikael Fridh
+    date: July 2023
+    blurb: Technical contributions
+    hero_type: contributor
+    image: "/uploads/2023/07/mikael-fridh-portrait.jpeg"
+    alt: Portrait of Mikael Fridh
+    github_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaelfridh/"
   - name: Yu Cao
     date: February 2023
     blurb: Technical contributions