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+title: Announcing July's Linkerd Hero
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+tags:
+  - Community
+  - Hero
+items:
+description: The votes are in! This month's Linkerd Hero Mikael Fridh for fixing an incompatibility between Linkerd's CNI plugin and newer versions of EKS's VPC CNI plugin.
+keywords: [Hero]
+---
+### 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 Linke rd'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!
+
+[ADD IMAGE HERE]
+
+## 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!