Ildiko Vancsa
Creator And Host
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIldiko Vancsa is a strategic technology and community leader with nine years of hands-on open source and technical leadership experience, currently directing community efforts at the OpenInfra Foundation and hosting the My Open Source Experience podcast. She blends developer credibility—contributing to core OpenStack projects like Nova and Cinder to improve test reliability and volume management—with executive-level engagement, regularly briefing C-suite stakeholders, media, and analysts. A practiced public speaker and content creator, she turns technical conversations into accessible narratives that drive adoption and ecosystem growth. Passionate about open collaboration, she designs onboarding, governance, and metrics-driven processes that lower barriers for contributors and sustain project health. Based in Seattle with a master's in computer science, she pairs deep engineering roots with orchestration skills across community, marketing, and product teams.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
openstack10
api10
python10
apidoc10
mocking10
testing9
block-storage9
test-automation9
service-provider8
service-design8
git7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ildiko primarily contributed to the OpenStack Nova project by replacing the `mox` mocking library with `mock` in various unit tests. This effort involved code modifications in multiple test files to ensure the existing testing infrastructure correctly utilized the new mocking framework. The changes aimed to improve test reliability and reduce race conditions. The user also made changes to support the Cinder API and added a new check to volume attach.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/cinder
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ildiko primarily contributed to the OpenStack Cinder project by addressing bugs and improving the existing code. They fixed policy issues related to testing, removed duplicated code, and added new statuses to the API reference. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to update volume attachments and restored functionality for the multiattach flag during volume creation, demonstrating a focus on volume management. These contributions involved modifications to the core functionality and documentation within the block storage system.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
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