Hi Shailaja, Thank you for the warm welcome! I found the community page, would it be possible for you to please send me a guest ASF Slack invite to [email protected]?
Thanks, Silas On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM Shailaja Koppu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > Proposal: submitted via the GSoC portal > > Best, Silas > > >
