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, simply open an issue. There is a template set up to help you get started quickly.
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.
Mentors
See https://rustbeginners.github.io/awesome-rust-mentors/
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
Ben (@gnunicorn)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Matrix (@ben:matrix.parity.io), Gitter (@gnunicorn), Twitter (@gnunicornBen)
- Spoken Languages: English, German
- Topics: Hacktoberfest, libp2p, substrate, blockchain, decentralization, networking, p2p, cryptogovernance, cli, web, webassembly, data structures, architecture
- Additional Resources: personal website
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:
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:
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).
Erich Gubler (@erichdongubler)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Email (erichdongubler@gmail.com)
- Spoken Languages: English, Portuguese (BR)
- Topics: Forensics/parsing, workflow (setting up projects, architecture)
Esteban Küber (@estebank)
- Pronouns: he/his
- Contact: Twitter (@ekuber)
- Spoken Languages: English, Spanish
- Topics: Beginners,
rustc(parser, diagnostics and in general).
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:
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:
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), Email (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:
Zack M. Davis (@zackmdavis)
- Contact: Twitter (@zackmdavis), email (code@zackmdavis.net), Discord (zackmdavis#3944)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Language basics, rustc development (especially diagnostics)