Speakers

Mara is team lead of the Rust library team and co-leads the Rust edition 2021 project group. She's also founder and CTO of Fusion Engineering, a company specializing in the combination of Rust, sensors and control. She is well-known for making horrible Rust proc macros and posting screenshots with a pink background on Twitter.

Nicholas Matsakis is the co-lead of the Rust language design team and a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS. He has been working on Rust since 2011. In that time, he has worked on the design of a number of key parts of the Rust language, most notably the borrowing system and the trait system.

Nell Shamrell-Harrington is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft in the Open Source Programs Office and a Board Director with the Rust Foundation. She is also Lead Editor of This Week in Rust and a member of multiple Rust working groups and teams. Previously, she worked at Mozilla and Chef Software. In her spare time, she is a member of the board of Operation Code, a non-profit dedicated to teaching software engineering skills to Military Veterans and their families.

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

Brian is a software engineer at Twitter where he focuses on performance and optimization projects. He contributes to several Twitter open source projects including: Pelikan, Rezolus, and rpc-perf. Brian is passionate about high performance software, systems tuning, monitoring, benchmarking, and Rust. When not hacking on code, Brian volunteers in his local search and rescue unit and is training his dog to find people who get lost in the wilderness.

Engaged in the community since 2015, member of the compiler team since 2017, Esteban currently works on rustc at AWS as a Principal Engineer, focused on improving its diagnostics messages, in an effort to make the language approachable to all.

Hugo Peixoto is a software developer from Portugal. He co-organizes the Porto Codes, a monthly programming meetup, co-hosts Conversas em Código, a podcast in Portuguese about software development. One of the developers of Cyberscore and F-Zero Central, two high scores and speedrunning communities. Previously founded a small software consultancy but now part time freelancing while trying to enjoy writing code again and randomly contributing to a bunch of free software projects.

Isabella is a founder of Tangram, an all-in-one automated machine learning framework (written in Rust!). Before that, she was a machine learning engineer at Slack, and studied computer science at MIT.

Jackson Lewis is a 19-year-old software developer for 1Password with three years of professional experience. He loves Rust and created the popular macro library “cascade”, along with multiple hobby projects, including a multiplayer game engine. In his free time he enjoys drawing, Wikipedia binging, and watching foreign films.

Lily Mara is an engineering manager and former staff software engineer at OneSignal, the leader in customer messaging solutions. She has been using Rust since before the 1.0 release, and professionally at OneSignal since 2019. She is the author of Refactoring to Rust, a new book by Manning Publications about integrating Rust into existing code bases.

I'm Luke. I work at StructionSite building software with Rust and Elm. I live in California with my wife and dog, and I like to do all kinds of stuff outside of programming. I come to Rust from the Elm community, where I am a long-time core contributor, regular conference speaker, and formerly an assistant organizer of elm-conf. I'm really enjoying Rust and especially Bevy. Shoutout to the Bevy contributors!

Software engineer, Rust and fuzzing enthusiast.

I work in the intersection of Rust, C, and C++, and have been thinking about how to bridge these languages safely and ergonomically, especially with a view towards resource-constrained environments.

Zac Burns is a Software Engineer at Edge & Node (we're hiring Rust devs!). He's been loving Rust for over two years and programming for almost twenty. Any insight coming from this talk came by committing every possible kind of mistake over that period.