Speakers

Nell Shamrell-Harrington is the lead editor of This Week in Rust and Vice Chair of the Rust Foundation Board of Directors. She is also a Principal Engineer at Microsoft in Azure Core. Additionally, she is a long-time Open Source contributor and maintainer. Outside of work, she enjoys raising pet bunnies!

Sage is the former co-lead of the team that manages crates.io, the creator of Diesel, and the chief teller of awful jokes

Nikolai Vazquez began poking at the edges of Rust in 2017 and has since then developed a variety of cursed ways to use it, such as his Static Assertions crate. Nikolai's career has spanned the entire stack, from web/mobile UIs to databases to reverse engineering assembly. When he's abstaining from software, you can find Nikolai designing graphics, playing jazz piano, dancing lindy hop, or practicing Español and Deutsch.

I've been building robots with C++ and ROS for over a decade. Last year >5 billion pieces of recycling were sorted by systems I helped build. I believe rust enables us to build these systems faster, better, cheaper and I'm on a crusade to get rust adopted in the robotics world!

Luke Francl works on code search at GitHub. He's excited to build software that makes developers happier and more productive. Prior to joining GitHub, he worked at a search-as-a-service startup, as a freelance developer, and spent a lot of time doing XML sit-ups in the Java world. He lives in San Francisco with his family.

Corey is a web developer and content creator with background in Ruby and a passion for Rust. He loves sharing his knowledge and experience through his videos and streams, and his goal is to create educational and engaging content that developers of all skill levels can enjoy.

Matt is a visually impaired developer who has been working in accessibility for over 20 years. He developed a Windows screen reader starting in 2004, was a member of the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft from 2017 through 2020, and is now the lead developer of AccessKit, which is providing reusable, cross-platform GUI accessibility infrastructure for both Rust and other languages.

Learned to program with Rust in 2017, been committing code crimes ever since.

Will Crichton is a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi, working on making Rust easier to learn. Will recently completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University advised by Pat Hanrahan and Maneesh Agrawala.

His research combines programming language theory and cognitive psychology to design principled and practical tools for programmers. His goal is to enable people to build the computational infrastructure of today that can tackle the problems of tomorrow.

I'm a developer advocate at JetBrains. I taught more than a dozen programming languages and other Computer Science topics at universities for more than 20 years. I authored "Haskell in Depth", published by Manning Publications in 2021.

Yosh works on the Rust programming language at Microsoft. They’re focused on making async programming reliable and accessible. Also an enthusiast cook, cat dad, and prospective DIY guy.

Inaugural Rust Foundation fellow. Frequent contributor to Rust. Maintainer of the time, deranged, and num_threads crates.

Lisa Crossman is originally a Lab Biologist with a wealth of experience in scientific research and programming. She has a degree in Microbiology from University of Bristol, UK, MSc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Leicester and a PhD in Bacterial Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

She subsequently began to explore the field of Computer biology at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. After several years in genomics, she moved back to the Norwich Research Park in Norwich, East Anglia as a consultant, and continued to develop programming skills in Python and R.

Over the last two years, a drive to optimize performance and efficiency led her to discover Rust to develop a high-speed workflow. She has now found a fully-fledged place for Rust in her research and work.

When not working with Rust, Lisa can be found running, cycling or looking after guinea pigs.

Saveliy is a software engineer on the Advanced Technology team at Well Fargo. Prior to that, he was a software engineer at a prop shop, and studied math & computer science at Columbia University.

Rain is an engineer at Oxide, the creator of cargo-nextest—a next-generation test runner for Rust—and the maintainer of several Rust crates (check out camino for a better way to handle paths!)

Previously, Rain was a software engineer at Meta building developer infrastructure for its tens of thousands of engineers. They're passionate about developer tools and open source software, and fell in love with Rust when they first encountered it.

Outside of work, Rain listens to ambient and experimental music, spends time with their dog Rosie, and plays Soulsborne games and Spirit Island.

Zach Mitchell, PhD is a software engineer building Nix-based developer tooling at flox and has been a Rustacean since 2018. Previously he built state of the art time resolved laser systems and modeled quantum-biological systems.

Outside of flox he works on the Nix Documentation Team as the lead for the Learning Journey Working Group. He's also an avid disc golfer, amateur whiskey sommelier, and a huge Dungeons & Dragons nerd.

amy is a software engineer who enjoys trying to improve developer tooling and infrastructure. amy does its best work on projects that make most people stop and ask "wait but WHY?"

Joannah Nanjekye has a background as a Software and Aeronautical Engineer. Currently, a Python core developer and director of the Python Software Foundation doing research on garbage collection in Python with the IBM Center for Advanced studies - Atlantic, at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, but originally from Uganda, East Africa.

She is also the author of Python 2 and 3 compatibility, a book published by Apress.

Pierre Avital, PhD, is a core contributor to Eclipse Zenoh, a networking middleware that turns your distributed systems into a single high-throughput event bus (and RPC framework), from a microcontroller with a single BLE interface to the cloud.

After using Rust professionally since 1.28 (in the olden times before async/await), he's decided to make dynamic linkage more friendly for Rustaceans. He likes dogs, video games, and tricking compilers into doing more work at compile time than they ever wanted to.

Jan David joined the Rust Project in September last year to work on the Infrastructure Team full-time. When he's not working on infrastructure, he is either writing some Rust or spending time on a motorcycle.

Software engineer at Wells Fargo working on quantum computing.

Studied physics/astroparticle physics in Tuebingen and Berlin in Germany and worked as postdoctoral researcher in Chiba, JP and Honolulu, Hawaii. Currently systems programmer for the GAPS cosmic ray science experiment.

I am passionate about benevolent software, Open-Source, and Cybersecurity. So far my journey led me to work on optimising websites using Vite, local first software, peer-to-peer networking, verifiable computation, extensible software and now cross-platform native apps.

Aside from programming, I sing in several classical ensembles (if you love music come talk to me!) and love hiking.

Elizabeth Ayer works for 18F, an innovation team in the U.S. Federal Government, where she coaches program teams in effective delivery and fast flow. Focus on user outcomes, delivered in small, steady pieces, allows software teams to break through the red tape.

Previously, she was the Portfolio Manager for Redgate, a Database DevOps vendor, and a Product Manager at Siemens PLM for Product Lifecycle Management software. These past experiences of shipping product in very large and very small organisations, have made her a zealous advocate of continuous delivery of valuable software.

Herbert Wolverson is a Rust trainer and consultant for Ardan Labs, and is the Rust Series Expert for the Pragmatic Publishers. He also consults through his own company, Bracket Productions. Herbert is the author of the best-selling book Hands-on Rust, and also wrote Rust Brain Teasers. Herbert created the Rust Roguelike Tutorial, and is the lead developer on the open source projects LibreQoS and Bracket-Lib. He has contributed to numerous open source projects, including the Bevy Engine.

Nathan Stocks works as a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub by day, and by night teaches Rust and works on indie game dev projects (also in Rust).

He likes maple trees, pickleball, spending time with his wife and kids, eating food, and dreaming about quitting his day job to work on Rust teaching & game-making full-time with a small team of smart, happy humans. He is the author of the Ultimate Rust series of courses (and its corresponding YouTube channel) and several open source projects such as Rusty Engine or the headtail utility.