awesome-rust-mentors
A curated list of mentors who are interested in helping new contributors get involved in Rust.
Code of Conduct
All mentors and mentees are expected to abide by the Rust community code of conduct. Violators will be removed from this list.
New Mentors
To apply, simply open an issue. There is a template set up to help you get started quickly.
Expectations For Mentors
Work in progress - https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors/issues/1
Expectations For Mentees
Work in progress - https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors/issues/11
Missing Mentor Topics
If there are any topics of interest that you're looking for that aren't covered by any of the mentors here just open an issue to let us know! We will do our best to find a mentor for that topic / library / whatever and get them to sign up.
Mentors
Andre Bogus (@llogiq)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact Twitter (@llogiq), reddit (/u/llogiq)
- Spoken Languages: English, German
- Topics: procedural macros, writing lints, unsafe code, performance, bit twiddling, public speaking
Andreas Fischer (@Vengarioth)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@vengarioth), Email (vengarioth@gmail.com)
- Spoken Languages: English, German
- Topics: Games programming, graphics & rendering, netcode (games), parsers, starting a company in germany
Bernardo Meurer (@lovesegfault)
- Preferred Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@lovesegfault), Email (bernardo@standard.ai)
- Spoken Languages: Portuguese, English
- Topics: Beginners, intermediates, video, cameras, data transports, distributed systems
- Additional Resources: You can see the slides of the talk I gave this year as a reference on the kind of stuff I work with.
Bhargav Voleti (@bIgBV)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@2093bps)
- Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
- Topics: Beginners, async, distributed systems
Jane Lusby (@yaahc)
- Pronouns: she/her
- Contact: Twitter (@yaahc_)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Beginners, community outreach, cargo, clippy, tracing, CLI
- Aditional Resources: My work tracker, I'm especially happy to mentor any of these issues
Luca Barbato (@lu-zero)
- Contact: IRC (lu_zero on freenode.net), Telegram (lu_zero)
- Spoken Languages: English, Italian
- Topics: Multimedia, cargo, proc-macros, CLI
Lucio Franco (@LucioFranco)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@lucio_d_franco)
- Spoken Languages: English, Italian, French
- Topics: Async io, networking, distributed systems, game dev, compilers
Mara Bos (@m-ou-se)
- Pronouns: she/her
- Contact: Email (rust@m-ou.se), Twitter (@m_ou_se), IRC (M-ou-se on Freenode)
- Spoken Languages: English, Dutch
- Topics: Embedded, CLI, math, proc-macro, Linux, undefined behaviour, FFI, lifetimes
Nikolai Vazquez (@nvzqz)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Email (nikvzqz@gmail.com)
- Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, German
- Topics: Learning Rust from nothing or experienced newcomers
- Additional Resources: I maintain the Static Assertions crate and so I'd be happy to teach people how it works
Oli (@oli-obk)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Zulip (@oli), Github (@oli-obk), Discord (oli#1337)
- Spoken Languages: German, English
- Topics: Miri, const eval, error messages and other diagnostics, optimizations, MIR
Ravi (@wafflespeanut)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@wafflespeanut)
- Spoken Languages: English, Tamil
- Topics: Beginners, CLI, web, coding practices, clean + maintainable code.
- Additional Resources: I'm actively working on paperclip, a WIP OpenAPI tooling library. I'd love to give a hand if anyone's interested!
Shady Khalifa (@shekohex)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@shekohex)
- Spoken Languages: Arabic, English
- Topics: Networking, FFI, CLI, parsers, development tools, web (server-side)
Søren Mortensen (@nerosnm)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@nerosnm), Email (soren@neros.dev)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Beginners/the basics, developer tools, CLI, Rust–Swift/Objective-C interop
William (@Firstyear)
- Pronouns: he/him/they/them
- Contact: Twitter (@Erstejahre), Email (william@blackhats.net.au)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Code review, beginners, C-FFI, concurrency, data structures, security, identity management aka authentication
- Additional Resources:
Zack M. Davis (@zackmdavis)
- Contact: Twitter (@zackmdavis), email (code@zackmdavis.net), Discord (zackmdavis#3944)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Language basics, rustc development (especially diagnostics)
Additional Resources
- Rust Language Cheat Sheet - https://cheats.rs/
- rust-learning - https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning
- awesome-rust - https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#resources