Ildiko Vancsa

Ildiko Vancsa is the Director of Community at the OpenInfra Foundation (formerly known as OpenStack Foundation).13 She has over 10 years of experience in technical leadership and a strong strategic mindset.4 Vancsa's journey with virtualization began during her university years, and she has been involved with this technology in various capacities since then.35

Vancsa's key roles and contributions include:

1. Co-leader of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group3
2. Community Manager for the StarlingX open source distributed cloud project13
3. Active participant in communities such as Anuket and State of the Edge3
4. Core team member of Ceilometer and Aodh projects2
5. Driver of NFV-related feature development in projects like Nova and Cinder2

She is passionate about onboarding and training activities within the Open Infrastructure Foundation.23 Vancsa's work focuses on areas such as Edge Computing, Telecommunications, and NFV, and she has been contributing to projects like OpenStack for over a decade.1

Her career began at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she focused on system management and business process modeling and optimization.3 Vancsa joined Ericsson's cloud project in 2013, which marked her introduction to OpenStack.3