Summary
Rynn Mancuso is a community-first technologist and policy designer with 14 years of experience building safer, more inclusive online spaces for developers, brands, and global open source projects. As a lead author of Contributor Covenant 3 and former builder of Mozilla’s bespoke enforcement tooling, she blends hands-on JavaScript development with strategic community operations to make codes of conduct practical and privacy-aware at scale. She’s led developer community programs at Honeycomb and New Relic, grew maintainers and contributor engagement at Tidelift, and ran 24/7 moderation operations for Fortune 500 clients, consistently tying community work to measurable business outcomes. Rynn brings deep expertise in safety, accessibility, diversity, and crisis operations, plus a track record of shipping tooling and processes—such as CoC Beacon—that other projects reuse. Based in the Bay Area, she pairs academic training in digital media and disability studies with current study in deep learning, reflecting a rare mix of social policy, product craft, and technical curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Currently pursuing a certificate in Deep Learning Bay Area AI Center of Excellence, Currently pursuing a certificate in Deep Learning Bay Area AI Center of Excellence at Laney College
BA with Honors from the South Carolina Honors College Anthropology & Media Arts, BA with Honors from the South Carolina Honors College Anthropology & Media Arts at University of South Carolina
AI/ML Bootcamp for Application Developers, AI/ML Bootcamp for Application Developers at Deep Atlas
Culture History Theory Graduate Program: Disability Studies, Culture History Theory Graduate Program: Disability Studies at Emory University
Master of Science - MS Graduate Program in Digital Media, Master of Science - MS Graduate Program in Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology