Hi Silas, Welcome to the Apache Cassandra community. It’s great to hear from you, and we really appreciate the initiative you have shown. I’m not sure we have a formal list of mentors published anywhere. I’d recommend joining the ASF Slack workspace if you haven’t already—the Cassandra onboarding guide has the instructions. Once there, feel free to reach out directly to the CEP authors and the PMC members to help you connect to mentors in the relevant areas of the codebase. Glad to have you here, and looking forward to your contributions!
Thanks, Shailaja > On Mar 30, 2026, at 11:50 PM, Silas Maughan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <http://github.com/silvanias> > Proposal: submitted via the GSoC portal > > > Best, Silas >
