awesome-rust-mentors/docs/index.md

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

Expectations For Mentees

Work in progress

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

Ana Hobden (@hoverbear)

• Contact: Email (ana@hoverbear.org, Twitter (@a_hoverbear)
• Spoken Language: English, some German, some Chinese
• Topics: Distributed systems, software evolution, infrastructure, architecture, chaos testing, workshops, proc-macros

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

Brian Anderson (brson)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Telegram (MrBrianAnderson)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Rust tooling, ecosystem, greenfield projects, big ideas, Chinese community, connecting people. I work on TiKV, and have worked on the compiler, std, rustup, crater and others.
• Additional Resources:
  • Practical Networked Applications in Rust
  • Rust Anthology
  • basic-http-server
  • my blog and other writings
  • Rust Cookbook
  • Rust API Guidelines.

Geoff Shannon (@RadicalZephyr)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Discord (@radicalzephyr#6728)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginners, intermediates, async/await, macros (by-example and procedural), parsing, tokio

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:
  • Programming lessons and methods
  • LDAP guide
  • Using rust generics to enforce db record state
  • CPU atomics and ordering explained

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
• rust-learning
• awesome-rust

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