Speakers

Mark Russinovich is CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He later co-founded Winternals Software, joining Microsoft in 2006 when the company was acquired. Mark is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, and RSA Conference. He has authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, Troubleshooting with the Sysinternals Tools, as well as fictional cyber security thrillers Zero Day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code.

Ellie Huxtable is the founder and lead developer of Atuin, an open-source shell history and automation tool. She’s spent her career building infrastructure at scale, with a particular love for systems that blur the line between local and cloud. Today, she focuses on using Rust across the entire stack, from CLI tools to desktop apps to embedded components inside Elixir backends.

Jonathan is the creator and founder of Dioxus, a side-project-turned-startup building a cross-platform app framework for Rust. Before Dioxus, he worked at Cloudflare on Warp and 1.1.1.1, and before that, did scientific research in physics and engineering at Duke and NASA. He’s been active in the Rust community since 2018 and enjoys making Rust easier to use for high-level development. In his spare time, Jonathan enjoys hiking trips, dancing, and photography around the world.

Jeremy Soller is the creator of Redox OS, a Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust. Jeremy is also Principal Engineer at System76, where he works on Pop!_OS, the COSMIC desktop environment, open-source firmware, and open hardware. Jeremy has been writing Rust code since 2015 and has enjoyed using it for everything from firmware to OS kernels to GUI applications.

Marco started his career as an Embedded System Engineer. Since 2020 he worked as a Rust Backend Engineer, building microservices with high performance requirements. During his spare time, he maintains release-plz and hosts the RustShip podcast. He is an Infrastructure Engineer at the Rust Foundation.

Chandler Carruth is the technical lead for Google’s programming languages and software foundations. He is one of the Carbon Language leads, and has worked extensively on the C++ programming language as well as the Clang and LLVM compiler infrastructure. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system and made guest appearances helping maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disavows all knowledge of the contents of his Master’s thesis. When not hammering away on a weirdly shaped keyboard, he enjoys sushi, fine dining, brown spirits, and everything about wine.

Nathaniel Simard is an open-source developer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Tracel-AI. He is the creator of Burn, a high-performance deep learning framework built in Rust. With a diverse background in software engineering and AI, he holds an M.Sc. in machine learning from Mila. Obsessed with efficient software development, he is committed to advancing AI with better software through his various projects.

Rain is an engineer at Oxide, and the creator of cargo-nextest: a next-generation test runner for Rust.

Yang Zhou is a Roboticist specializing in autonomous aerial vehicle systems, with a focus on multi-robot collaborative perception. As the main organizer of the ICRA25 Rust-for-Robotics workshop, Yang works at the intersection of safe programming languages and autonomous systems, advocating for more reliable development practices in the robotics community.

Tyler co-leads the Rust Language Design team and works on Rust at Google, most recently focusing on language interop and async.

Taylor (cramertj, she/her) is a former member of the Rust language design and compiler teams currently working on Rust/C++ interoperability at Google.

Konstantinos is an undergraduate Computer Engineering student with a passion for radio, high-altitude ballooning, and analog video.

Lalit Kumar Bhasin is a maintainer of OpenTelemetry C++ and OpenTelemetry Rust, with a strong focus on observability in native and systems-level environments. He has spent the past five years at Microsoft working on production-grade telemetry pipelines and open-source instrumentation. His work bridges high-performance native applications and modern observability standards, with a focus on using eBPF and Rust to push OpenTelemetry deeper into the stack.

Wojciech is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and a former professional road and track cyclist who transformed his career into an inspiring journey through software engineering, fueled by a deep passion for innovation. Motivated by Rust’s strong reputation within the GitHub community, he embraced the language as his primary tool for building robust, large-scale business systems. Wojciech continuously seeks performance optimizations and designs high-efficiency systems tailored to evolving business needs. For several years, he has been executing ambitious Rust projects, seamlessly balancing architectural planning with hands-on development. By founding the Rust Gdańsk Meetup, he has cultivated a vibrant local developer community.

Brad Gibson is an experienced systems developer and entrepreneur who is attracted to opportunities that deliver social impact. He is passionate about modern software engineering and demonstrably correct, maintainable, and efficient code.

Sam is the tech lead on the Guardian’s Secure Messaging project. Before that he worked on search tools for journalists and in the field supporting investigations.

Zeke Hunter-Green is a Senior Software Engineer on The Guardian’s Digital Investigations team where he builds journalism tools and directly contributes to journalism projects.”

Daniel is a computer security researcher and software engineer. His work revolves around applied cryptography, secure protocols, and anonymous communication.

goingforbrooke is the founder of Trafficking Free Tomorrow where she writes anti-human trafficking software In Rust. By day, she codes innovative solutions and by night she streams her coding adventures on Twitch.

Ludvig works at Microsoft where he works on Hyperlight

Danilo (Dan) Chiarlone is an Open-Source Software Engineer at Microsoft’s WebAssembly (Wasm) Container Upstream team, and he works on bringing Wasm to the cloud with projects like: containerd-wasm-shims, runwasi, SpiderLightning, and Hyperlight.

During his free-time, Dan enjoys teaching others about Rust and Wasm, watching Star Trek, and playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

Sam is the founding engineer at BoundaryML, where he’s using Rust to build BAML, a new open-source programming language for LLM-powered applications. He’s been a huge fan of Rust after first using it in 2023, and has wrangled C++, Java, Python, and TS in both startups and at Google.

Leon Schuermann is a Ph.D. candidate in the SNS group at Princeton University, focusing on research in the areas of secure and embedded operating systems. He is an active developer and maintainer of the Tock embedded operating system, written in Rust and designed to run mutually distrustful applications.

MapLibre cofounder, author of Sophox, Wikipedia API, Maps, Data vis, lead Rivian and Elastic maps efforts.

Ally Salim Jr is the Co-founder of Elsa Health & CTO of Hikma Health. Elsa Health is a mission-driven nonprofit based in Tanzania that focuses on leveraging technology and AI to achieve equitable, universal healthcare; Hikma Health is a nonprofit based in the US building health records systems for clinics serving displaced populations. Ally is a software engineer by training with expertise in mathematics, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. As a transdisciplinary problem solver, he is constantly looking for ways to improve the human condition and contribute meaningfully to society. Ally has led the development and implementation of multiple large-scale projects using emerging technologies in limited resource settings. He spends his free time playing chess and chasing around his 2 year old daughter.

Luca Palmieri builds technology products for a living. His current focus is on backend development, software architecture and the Rust programming language.

He currently works at MainMatter as a Principal Engineering Consultant. He partners with teams across the industry to make sure they succeed in adopting or scaling their Rust usage, where it makes sense to do so. He was formerly at AWS and TrueLayer.

He has been part of the Rust community since 2018 and is best known as the author of “Zero to Production in Rust”, an introduction to using Rust for backend development.

Russell joined AWS to create the AWS SDK for Rust and now leads broad-scale efforts around Rust adoption at AWS.

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul will be delivering opening remarks at RustConf and Rust Global. She leads the Rust Foundation as Executive Director & CEO, holds a Ph.D. in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and researcher with governments, parliaments, and development agencies all over the world. Across her career, Rebecca has been an advocate for openness and transparency, and developing tools to improve digital participation. In addition to leading the Rust Foundation, Rebecca is a Non-Executive Director and Council Member for the UK Advertising Standards Authority and a Trustee of the Hansard Society.