Sydney Mansaw is a Quality Engineer with a decade of engineering experience and a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Prairie View A&M University, currently based in the Wichita metro area. She has practical hands-on experience across aerospace and semiconductor sectors, including internships and roles at Raytheon, Intel, MKEC Engineering, and now Boeing, blending electrical engineering, instrumentation, and process control with quality-focused practice. Sydney contributes to open-source back-end projects—most notably adding detailed debug logging and refactors to the DAOS storage stack—demonstrating attention to observability and maintainable systems. A proactive student leader and volunteer, she has driven recruitment and retention for HBCU tech cohorts and serves on community boards, mentoring youth and promoting women in STEM. She is pursuing a future that merges engineering with business through graduate study to scale her technical impact into strategic leadership.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Prairie View A&M University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Northeast Magnet High School
DAOS Storage Stack (client libraries, storage engine, control plane)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:184 reviews, 158 commits, 123 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sydney's contributions primarily involve enhancing debug logging for the DAOS storage stack. The commits focus on adding detailed logging for RPC message allocation, submission, and sending within the CaRT (Cauldron Raft Transport) and the gurt library. The changes modify existing code to include more informative debug messages, providing better insights into the system's behavior and facilitating whitebox path testing. The user also refactored code to replace outdated references, updating code to the latest gurt library updates.
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