Awesome Rust Mentors - github

New mentees

Welcome to awesome rust mentors! This project is a curated list of Rustaceans who are ready and willing to act as mentors to new Rustaceans looking to get more involved in the language and/or its community. If that sounds interesting to you, check out the rules and our list of mentors, pick one at random or maybe based off of their bio, and make a friend!

Expectations For Mentees

Mentees are expected to…

Remember that our mentors are all volunteers, be kind and friendly.
Inform us if you have any problems with your mentor, such as violating the Code of Conduct (CoC) or being non responsive for a long period of time (approximately > 1 week or so).
Provide feedback, on this repository or on your mentor, let us know if there are any ways in which we are not serving your needs, this project is all about you after all, help us help you.

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.

Exercism.io

If you’re looking for someone to mentor solutions for exercism.io just look for mentors that have exercism.io as one of their mentor topics, they will be happy to help.

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, please open a PR that adds an entry for yourself to _includes/mentors.md.

Expectations For Mentors

Mentors are expected to…

Be a friend and guide to your mentee, be their constant cheerleader, and enable them to achieve their goals.
Provide constructive feedback, pass on things you’ve learned in the course of working in open source.
- For example, if your mentee is working on something cool encourage them to blog about it, give a talk about it at a local meetup, or both!
Be responsive, approximately < 1 day for a response is a good goal. Not getting feedback for long periods of time can be discouraging, even if all you can do is say that you’re busy, try to respond promptly.
Introduce your mentee to other Rustaceans. You aren’t expected to know everything that your mentee might be interested in, but knowing people who can help and facilitating introductions is important.

Mentors are not expected to…

Be a tutor. Mentors and Tutors are not the same, one advises, the other teaches. You are not expected to teach your mentee the language, only to advise them on how to participate in the Rust community.
Be a manager. You’re not expected to assign work to your mentees and make sure it gets done, thats a job in its own right. Though if you’re maintaining a project that your mentee is getting involved in maybe this doesn’t apply to you, but that’s more of a maintainer role than a mentor role.
Be paid. This is a volunteer service. Please do not plan on asking mentees to pay you for your time.

Project Mentorship

See https://rustbeginners.github.io/awesome-rust-mentors/

Turtle - Create Animated Drawings Quickly and Easily in Rust

Repo: https://github.com/sunjay/turtle
Contact: https://turtle.zulipchat.com/
Spoken Languages: English, Canadian English
Recommended Experience: Beginner - Intermediate
Topics: 2D Computer Graphics, Game Engine, Interprocess-Communication, Async, WebAssembly
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Dotenv-linter - ⚡️ Lightning-fast linter for `.env` files. Written in Rust 🦀

Repo: https://github.com/dotenv-linter/dotenv-linter
Contact: https://twitter.com/mgrachev
Spoken Languages: English
Recommended Experience: Beginner
Topics: CLI, Linters, Dotenv
Timezone: MSK (GMT+3)

OpenPowerlifting - Database, compiler, webserver, and data for the sport of Powerlifting. It’s all Rust!

Repo: https://gitlab.com/openpowerlifting/opl-data
Contact: https://openpl.zulipchat.com/ (Say hi, or message Sean Stangl if you’re shy!)
Spoken Languages: English, Esperanto
Recommended Experience: Beginner - Intermediate
Topics: Webservers, Compilers, Databases, Data Analysis
Timezone: MST (GMT-7)

cargo-tarpaulin - Code coverage for rust, source analysis, tracing, reporting

Repo https://github.com/xd009642/tarpaulin
Contact Email (danielmckenna93@gmail.com) Discord (xd009642#3296)
Spoken Languages: English
Recommended Experience: All
Topics: Code coverage, CLI tools, Interprocess Communication, Binary analysis
Timezone: GMT

Linfa - A Rust machine learning framework

Repo: https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa
Contact: https://rust-ml.zulipchat.com/
Mentors: https://github.com/quietlychris, https://github.com/bytesnake
Spoken Languages: English, German
Recommended Experience: Beginner - Intermediate
Topics: Machine Learning, Data analysis, Clustering, Algorithms

Individual Mentorship

See https://rustbeginners.github.io/awesome-rust-mentors/

Aaron Hill (@Aaron1011)

Contact Discord (Aaron1011#7024), Email (aa1ronham@gmail.com)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners, rustc (parser, diagnostics, traits, crate metadata), proc-macros, pin projections, miri
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources: I help maintain pin-project

Ahmed Masud (@ahmed-masud)

Pronouns: he/him/they/them
Contact: Twitter:(@ahmedmasud, Email (ahmed.masud@saf.ai)
Spoken Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, some French, translate.google.com in a pinch,
Topics: Beginners, Basics, CLI, Async, Machine-Learning, AI, File systems, Kernel development, opinions on managing complex projects
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources: I am a relative beginner in Rust, but I have a lot of experience in software engineering and systems design (~30 years) I will share all the ways I’ve made mistakes :-) so you don’t have to repeat any of mine.

Amit Upadhyay (@amitu)

Pronouns: Amit Upadhyay
Contact: Email (amitu@fifthtry.com)
Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
Timezone: IST (GMT+5.5)
Topics: Web Development, CLI, Database, Realm, FTD, FPM

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
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

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
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)

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
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)

Andrew Yourtchenko (@ayourtch)

Pronouns: he/him/them
Contact: Twitter (@ayourtch)
Spoken Languages: English, Russian
Topics: Beginners, CLI, iron, mustache, IPv6 & computer networking in general
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources: I would classify myself as an intermediate level in Rust, but I dabble at various levels, e.g. both lower-level like TACACS+ (takaks), FFI (vpp-rust-plugin), as well as higher level like web-apps (rsp10) - will be happy to help and share my experience!

Andy Thomason (@andy-thomason)

Pronouns: they/them
Contact: Twitter (@quaternioso)
Spoken Languages: English, French, Spanish
Topics: Beginners/Intermediate, Iterators, Traits, Procedural macros, Bioinformatics, Performance, LLVM, Autovectorisation, Code transformation, Game development lecturer.
Timezone: GMT
Additional Resources:
- Oxford Rust Meetup
- Extendr R bindings

Bernardo Meurer (@lovesegfault)

Preferred Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@lovesegfault), Email (bernardo@meurer.org)
Spoken Languages: English, Portuguese
Topics: Beginners, intermediates, video, cameras, quantum computers
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Bhargav Voleti (@bIgBV)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@2093bps)
Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
Topics: Beginners, async, distributed systems
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Cassie Meharry (@cassiemeharry)

Pronouns: she/her
Contact: Email (cassie@prophetessof.tech), Discord (bluejeans#1230)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Intermediate Rust, async/await, web, CLI tools, system design
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Chuck Pierce (@charlespierce)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@chuckapierce), Email (chuck@charlespierce.dev), Discord (Chuck Pierce#8737)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginner / Intermediate Rust, CLI, Developer Tools, Code Review
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

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
Timezone: GMT
Additional Resources: I sometimes write about Rust on my blog

Doug Tangren (@softprops)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@softprops), Email (d.tangren@gmail.com), Discord (softprops#1989)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners, intermediates. Transitioning to Rust from Scala/Java/Typescript. Community. Open source. Effective std lib. Command line tools, AWS/Serverless.
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)

Dylan DPC (@Dylan-DPC)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Discord (@dpc), Twitter (@dpc_22)
Spoken Languages: English, German
Topics: Open to anything that is sort of in the general-purpose domain
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)

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).
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Erich Gubler (@erichdongubler)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Email (erichdongubler@gmail.com)
Spoken Languages: English, Portuguese (BR)
Topics: Forensics/parsing, workflow (setting up projects, architecture)
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)

Esteban Küber (@estebank)

Pronouns: he/his
Contact: Twitter (@ekuber)
Spoken Languages: English, Spanish
Topics: Beginners, rustc (parser, diagnostics and in general).
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Evan Chan (@velvia)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@evanfchan), Instagram(@platypus.arts)
Spoken Languages: English, some Cantonese/Mandarin
Topics: Beginner/Intermediate, Transitioning from GC/JVM/Scala/Python, Data Structures, Data Processing, Databases, Compression, High Performance / Benchmarking / SIMD
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Gabe Martinez (@mystal)

Pronouns: they/them
Contact: Twitter (@mystalice), Discord (mystal#3600)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginner/Intermediate Rust, Game Programming (& Design), Rapid Prototyping, Product Management
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Giles Cope (@gilescope)

Pronouns: he/his
Contact: Twitter (@gilescope) / Reddit (u/gilescope)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners
Timezone: GMT

Zephyr Shannon (@RadicalZephyr)

Pronouns: they/them
Contact: Discord (@radicalzephyr#6728)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners, intermediates, async/await, macros (by-example and procedural), parsing, tokio
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Gray Olson (@termhn)

Pronouns: she/her
Contact: Twitter (@fu5ha)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners, graphics, gamedev
Timezone: MST (GMT-7)
Additional resources:

Jane Losare-Lusby (@yaahc)

Pronouns: she/her
Contact: Zulip (Jane Losare-Lusby)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Error Handling Project Group, Library Team
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)
Additional Resources:
- Getting Involved In And Navigating The Rust Open Source Community
- Imposter Syndrome

JT (@jntrnr)

Pronouns: they/them
Contact: Email, Discord (jturner#3961), Twitter (@jntrnr)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Developer experiences, growing projects, Emulation, CLI, and Beginner/Intermediate Rust
Timezone: between timezones! will update when settled.

Jordan Gregory (@j4ng5y)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Discord (j4ng5y#0157), Twitter (@j4ng5y), Slack (@Jordan Gregory)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginner Rust, WASM, CLI, JavaScript Transition / Integration, Go Transition, Python Transition / Integration, Microservices, Kubernetes, Web APIs (RESTful / xRPC)
Timezone: CST (GMT-6)
Additional Resources: Meetup (STLRust), YouTube (STLRust), Twitch (j4ng5y)

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
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)
Additional Resources: Substrate Docs, Parity (Ethereum) Wiki, Substrate Community Resources

Karthik Ravikanti (@plumenator)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Check GitHub profile
Spoken Languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Telugu
Topics: Books, Code Reviews, Pair programming, Teaching (Rust beginners or programming beginners)
Timezone: SGT (GMT+8)

Kevin Flansburg (@kflansburg)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: email (in GitHub profile), reddit (/u/chicago_moose)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Rust, Microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, Websockets, Automated Trading
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources: Krustlet, KrustletCRI

Kevin Knapp (@kbknapp)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact Twitter (@thekbknapp), reddit (/u/Kbknapp), Keybase (kbknapp
Spoken Languages: English, Spanish (intermediate)
Topics: Beginners, all things CLI, performance, API design, clap, public speaking, systems design
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)

lcnr (@lcnr)

Pronouns: they/them
Contact: Zulip (@lcnr), Twitter (@lcnr7)
Spoken Languages: English, German
Topics: Beginners, intermediates, traits, unsafe code, compilers (both rustc and others)
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)

Lokathor (@lokathor)

Contact: Twitter (@Lokathor), Discord (Lokathor#2627)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners, intermediates, unsafe, FFI, SIMD
Timezone: MST (GMT-7)

Luca Barbato (@lu-zero)

Contact: IRC (lu_zero on libera.chat), Telegram (lu_zero)
Spoken Languages: English, Italian
Topics: Multimedia, cargo, proc-macros, CLI
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)

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
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)

Maher Khalil (@maherkhalil07)

Contact:maherkhalil@outlook.com
Spoken Languages: English, Arabic
Topics: Beginners
Timezone: AST (GMT+3)

Marco Ieni (@MarcoIeni)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@MarcoIeni), LinkedIn (@MarcoIeni), Discord (MarcoIeni#7180)
Spoken Languages: English, Italian
Topics: CLI, testing, beginners, error handling, developer tools, Continuous integration, distributed systems.
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)
Additional Resources:
- Rust GitHub Template

Mike Tang (@daogangtang)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@daogangtang)
Spoken Languages: Mandarin, English
Topics: Beginners, community meetup, wasm, web framework, orm, substrate…
Timezone: China Standard Time (GMT+8)
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
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources: I maintain Static Assertions, so I’d be happy to teach people how it works

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
Timezone: CET (GMT+1)

Raj (@avranju)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@avranju)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Networking, async I/O, beginner/intermediate Rust
Timezone: IST (GMT+5.5)

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
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)
Additional Resources: Video of a talk I presented at Mozilla HQ on FlatBuffers in Rust.

Roman (@kpp)

Contact: Telegram (gitkpp)
Spoken Languages: English, Russian
Topics: Beginner/Intermediate Rust, async, futures, CI
Timezone: Yerevan (GMT+4)

Shady Khalifa (@shekohex)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@shekohex)
Spoken Languages: Arabic, English
Topics: Networking, FFI, CLI, parsers, development tools, web (server-side)
Timezone: EET (GMT+2)

Søren Mortensen (@nerosnm)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@nerosnm), Email (soren@neros.dev)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners/the basics, developer tools, command-line interfaces, parsers, interpreters
Timezone: GMT

Thomas Adam (@ThomasAdam)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Email (thomas@xteddy.org), IRC (thomas_adam)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginner, CLI/TUI tools, FFI (C), Parsers, X11/Window management
Timezone: GMT

Tim McNamara (@timClicks)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@timClicks), Discord (timClicks#4198), Reddit (u/timClicks)
Spoken Languages: English, German
Topics: Rust for people who know Python/Ruby/JavaScript, data science, natural language processing
Timezone: NZDT (GMT+13)
Additional Resources:
- Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/timclicks
- YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/timClicks

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
Timezone: AEST (GMT+10)
Additional Resources:

Xavier Lange (@xrl)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Discord (uint128_t#5905)
Spoken Languages: English, French
Topics: Actix, Kubernetes, Docker builds
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Zack M. Davis (@zackmdavis)

Contact: Twitter (@zackmdavis), email (code@zackmdavis.net), Discord (zackmdavis#3944)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Language basics, rustc development (especially diagnostics)
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)

Tyler Neely (@spacejam)

Contact: Discord (@spacejam#5759 on the Rust discord)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Professional Rust trainer. Distributed systems, storage engines, io_uring, exploit development, lock-free programming, parallelism, fault injection, testing, systems engineering, consensus, eventual consistency, binary instrumentation, fuzzing, profiling, tuning, SIMD, FFI, kernel and hypervisor development.
Additional Resources:

Berwyn Jamesson (@berwyn)

Contact: Twitter (@_berwyn_), Discord (berwyn#0956)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Beginners, code review, coding practices, Docker, cargo, clippy
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)

T.J. Telan (@tjtelan)

Pronouns: he/him/they/them
Contact: Twitter(@ThatTJTelan)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: CLI, DevOps (CI/CD, automation, tools, infrastructure), distributed systems, embedded systems, wasm, beginner/intermediate Rust
Timezone: PST (GMT-8)
Additional Resources:
- My Blog - https://tjtelan.com/ (Or just the Rust stuff)
- My Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/tjtelan

Aaron Abramov (@aaronabramov)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter(@aarondjents)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: infra, graph algorithms, graph databases, software testing, testing frameworks, scaling, dev tooling, devx
Timezone: CST (GMT-6)
Additional Resources:
- My Blog - https://abramov.io/

William Woodruff (@woodruffw)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@8x5clPW2), e-mail (william@yossarian.net)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: Compilers (LLVM), systems programming, fuzzing, program analysis
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources:
- My Blog - ENOSUCHBLOG

Thomas Gideon (@cmdln)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@cmdln), e-mail (cmdln@thecommandline.net), Discord (cmdln#9288), Mastodon (@cmdln@fosstodon.org)
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: CLI, web services, web applications, WASM, DevOps, dev tools
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Additional Resources:
- My Blog - The Command Line

Narasimha Prasanna HN (@Narasimha1997)

Pronouns: he/him
Contact: Twitter (@prasannahn1997), Discord: (prasanna1997#0309), E-mail: (narasimhaprasannahn@gmail.com), Linkedin: Narasimha Prasanna HN
Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
Topics: Programming Languages, System Programming, Web Development, DevOps, Microservices
Timezone: IST (GMT+5:30)
Additional Resources:
- My Website - Narasimha1997.github.io