### Fellowhsip membership request

Hi, I'm Gonçalo Pestana, known as [@gpestana](https://github.com/gpestana). I have been working with Polkadot, Substrate and FRAME full-time from around November 2022. I have been mostly focusing on the Staking sub-system, and community outreach/ open-source tooling. I'd like to request joining the fellowship with rank I Dan.

Polkadot account: `14DfY8Hsg4bSU6Y9VaxL7aRhwfAfHqRSfj7FfHWUwLFV1V7q`

**Notable contributions**

#### Staking
- [Automatic `witdraw_unbounded` upon `Call::unbound`](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12582) (first non-trivial contribution)
- [Dynamic number of max nominations based on staked balance](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12970)
- [Variable deposit base calculation for EPM signed submissions](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1547)
- [Staking Ledger refactoring](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1484)
- [Integration tests for staking + election-provider-multi-phase](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12972)
- ongoing
- [Implements a % of era inflation into the treasury](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1660) (in audit)
- [Adds stake-tracker pallet and integrates with the staking pallet](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1933)

#### Outreach/ OS tooling
- [substrate-timetravel CLI](https://github.com/gpestana/substrate-timetravel) A CLI tool to extract, process and load historical state from Substrate-based chains.
- [Nominated Proof of Stake in Polkadot - review and comparison](https://hackmd.io/6494kDF3SFuBZlKjbcK1Cg).
- [NPoS Impacts, Critiques and Future Potentials in Polkadot | Polkadot Decoded 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_775xBKFc).
- [Polkadot Consensus Part 1: Enhanced Economic Security via NPoS](https://polkadot.network/blog/polkadot-consensus-part-1-enhanced-economic-security-via-npos).

#### Others
- On-call support to a mass-slashing in Kusama incident on era 4543 ([discussion](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/kusama-era-4543-slashing/)), with [follow-up PR](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12972).