Hi all, I am Silas Maughan, a Software Engineering BSc student at CODE University of Applied Science in Berlin. For the past year and a half I worked as a Computer Engineer at CERN, where I built and operated a production Apache Ozone and Hadoop storage cluster (~100 TB) supporting the High-Luminosity LHC. During that time I evaluated Apache Cassandra for certain storage workloads, developed novel undocumented integrations for Ozone, and have submitted an abstract to Community over Code this October to share these learnings with the Apache community.
I have submitted a GSoC 2026 proposal for CASSANDRA-21191 (CEP-59 in-band connection draining). I have read CEP-59 in full and studied the transport layer and drain path in StorageService. I would be grateful to connect with the listed mentors and welcome any feedback on my proposal. Apologies for the late contact! My research contract at CERN concluded last week and my priority was delivering a quality wrap-up of my work for Community over Code. GitHub: github.com/silvanias Proposal: submitted via the GSoC portal Best, Silas
