awesome-rust-mentors/_includes/mentors.md

Ana Hobden (@hoverbear)

• Contact: Email (ana@hoverbear.org, Twitter (@a_hoverbear)
• Spoken Language: English, some German, some Mandarin
• 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: German, English
• 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: German, English
• 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: English, Portuguese
• 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.

Cyryl Płotnicki (@cyplo)

• Pronouns: he/him/they/them
• Contact: Twitter (@cyplo)
• Spoken Languages: English, Polish
• Topics: mentoring others (so meta!), project management, brand-new-to-rust, structuring tests, property-based tests, fuzzers, distributed systems, I/O
• Additional Resources: I sometimes write about Rust on my blog

Dimitri Sabadie (@phaazon)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@phaazon), IRC (phaazon on Freenode), Email (dimitri.sabadie@gmail.com), Discord (phaazon#0545)
• Spoken Languages: French, English
• Topics: Graphics programming, procedural macros, unsafe bindings & FFI, functional programming & type theory, parsing, type-driven architectures, blockchains, low-level optimizations, cargo tools, writing RFCs.
• Additional Resources:
  • My blog

Eliza Weisman (@hawkw)

• Pronouns: she/her
• Contact: Email (eliza@buoyant.io), Discord (mycoliza#5146)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Async I/O, networking, concurrent data structures. I'm pretty busy and would generally prefer to provide mentoring for contributions to projects I already contribute to (tokio, tracing, tower, etc).

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

Gray Olson (@termhn)

• Pronouns: she/her
• Contact: Twitter (@fu5ha)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginners, graphics, gamedev
• Additional resources:
  • learn-gfx-hal
  • learn-rendy
  • Introduction to PBR

Jane Lusby (@yaahc)

• Pronouns: she/her
• Contact: Twitter (@yaahc_)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginners, community outreach, cargo, clippy, tracing, CLI, exercism.io, code review
• Aditional Resources: My work tracker, I'm especially happy to mentor any of these issues

Jonathan Turner (@jonathandturner)

• Pronouns: any gender pronoun
• Contact: Email, Discord (jturner#3961), Twitter (@jntrnr)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Developer experiences, growing projects, Emulation, CLI, and Beginner/Intermediate Rust

Joshua Mir (@joshua-mir)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@jam10o), Gitter Parity technical support chat: (@joshua-mir)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginner Rust, cryptocurrency, blockchain, parity-ethereum, Substrate runtime development
• Additional Resources: Substrate Docs, Parity (Ethereum) Wiki, Substrate Community Resources

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, shared memory, memory ordering/atomics/caches

Mike Tang (@daogangtang)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@daogangtang)
• Spoken Languages: Mandarin, English
• Topics: Beginners, community meetup, wasm, web framework, orm, substrate...
• Additional Resources:
  • rust.cc
  • rustforce.net

Nikolai Vazquez (@nvzqz)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@NikolaiVazquez), Email (nikvzqz@gmail.com), Discord (nvzqz#4477)
• Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, German
• Topics: Learning Rust from nothing or experienced newcomers
• Additional Resources: I maintain Static Assertions, 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

Phil Krones (@flip1995)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: GitHub (@flip1995), E-Mail (hello@philkrones.com), Discord (flip1995#2683; not that active there)
• Spoken Languages: German, English
• Topics: Beginners, Clippy, Lints, Diagnostics

Ravi (@wafflespeanut)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@wafflespeanut)
• Spoken Languages: Tamil, English
• 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!

Robert Winslow (@rw)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@robert_winslow)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Distributed systems, low-latency, testing, formal methods, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, deep learning, serialization. async/await, FlatBuffers, testing, minimizing heap allocations, lifetimes, traits, borrow-checker, API design
• Additional Resources: Video of a talk I presented at Mozilla HQ on FlatBuffers in Rust.

Roman Proskuryakov (@kpp)

• Contact: Github (@kpp), E-Mail (r.proskuryakoff@gmail.com), Telegram (gitkpp),
• Spoken Languages: English, Russian
• Topics: Beginner/Intermediate Rust, async, futures, CI

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)

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