Andrew Lamb

Staff Engineer, InfluxData

Andrew Lamb is a Staff Engineer at InfluxData, where he works on the InfluxDB 3.0 time series database in Rust. He focuses on storage and query processing which is built using the Apache DataFusion query engine and the Apache Arrow ecosystem. He is the PMC chair of Apache DataFusion, on the PMC of Apache Arrow, and an member of the Apache Software Foundation

https://andrew.nerdnetworks.org/

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewlamb1111.bsky.social

Github

https://github.com/alamb

• Using Tokio for CPU-Bound Tasks (Works Really Well)

Brian Martin

Co-founder at IOP Systems

Brian is a software engineer who focuses on performance optimization and distributed systems. He's worked extensively on caching and systems telemetry. Brian is the author and maintainer of several OSS projects in Rust, including Rezolus, RPC-Perf, and Pelikan and is passionate about writing high performance software in Rust. He worked at Twitter for 8 years, initially with the Cache Team and later as a member of the newly created Performance Team. After November 2022, Brian joined his teammates from Twitter as a co-founder of IOP Systems and continues to work on improving software and platform performance, efficiency, and reliability.

Github

https://github.com/brayniac

• Breaking the 125µs @ 1Mhz barrier w/ Tokio and what it means for your Tokio Web Server

Catherine West

Fighting with the Rust compiler since 2017

I work on Indie video games and also somehow VMs and compilers now. I was the keynote speaker for RustConf 2018.

Github

https://github.com/kyren

• The Edge of Safe Rust

Christian Schwarz

Member of Technical Staff @ Databricks

Christian is a software engineer passionate about foundational systems software. He started working on Neon Storage in November 2022 with many side quests into other areas of the Neon stack. Prior work includes contributions to OpenZFS and its ecosystem, both as a student and as an employee at Nutanix.

Bluesky

@problame.bsky.social

Github

@problame

• Storage-intensive apps on tokio: when it's time to reach for io_uring

Colin Ho

Software Engineer at Eventual

Colin Ho is a software engineer at Eventual, where he builds Daft, a high-performance data engine for any modality and scale. He primarily works on Daft's distributed execution engine, ensuring scalability and performance across large-scale workloads. Colin graduated from USC and previously interned at Stripe and Coinbase, where he worked on data systems in the fintech industry.

Github

https://github.com/colin-ho

• Async Rust Meets Async Python: How Daft runs user defined Python coroutines from Tokio

June Welker

Software engineer at InfluxData

I've been writing open-source Rust as a hobby for 5 years now, as well as using it professionally for a year and a half at InfluxData. I also maintain the terminal-based PDF viewer 'tdf', and love reading other people's blogs in my free time.

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/june.cat

Github

https://github.com/itsjunetime

• Using !Send with the benefits of Send

Khawaja Shams

Mars Rovers @ night and Tokio Proxy during the day

Khawaja won NASA's Early Career Medal for his contributions to the Mars Rovers and subsequently ran DynamoDB at AWS. Today, he is the CEO at Momento - where his team primarily codes in Rust.

He is an avid supporter of Valkey and has an unhealthy obsession with clinical benchmarking that keeps him up at nights.

• Breaking the 125µs @ 1Mhz barrier w/ Tokio and what it means for your Tokio Web Server

Lu Qiu

Database Engineer @ LanceDB

Lu is a Database engineer at LanceDB. Lu builds highly performant distributed search systems at LanceDB. She developed the distributed system Alluxio as its PMC maintainer. She's also a Data on Kubernetes Ambassador and Kubernetes community evangelist, bridging AI data infrastructure with cloud-native technologies.

• Less Tokio is More Tokio: Strategies for Accelerating a Rust Native Search Database

Motoyuki Kimura

Software Engineer, Technologies & Standards, Woven by Toyota

Motoyuki is a software engineer at Woven by Toyota, where he works on Rust-related projects for automotive applications. He is also actively involved in the Tokio project.

Github

https://github.com/mox692

• Tokio’s New io_uring-Based File I/O

Noah Kennedy

Cloudflare

Noah Kennedy is a senior engineer at Cloudflare working on caching, content distribution, and traffic management at Cloudflare. Noah is currently the technical lead for layer 7 load balancing within Cloudflare's network.

Mastodon

https://mastodon.despise.computer/@noah

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/nomaxx117.bsky.social

Github

https://github.com/Noah-Kennedy

• From NGINX to Tokio: Lessons from rewriting a 55 million RPS system

Pooja Kale

Software Engineer at AWS DSQL

I’m Pooja, a distributed systems engineer with 7 years of experience designing and optimizing high-performance, low-latency systems. I’m passionate about building scalable architectures that enhance the user experience across products and platforms, and taming distributed systems chaos via predictable execution models.

Github

https://github.com/pkale

• Building a Production Control Plane with Tokio

Qiqi Zhang

Build the robust infrastructure

Tokio enthusiast & maintainer.

Github

https://github.com/ADD-SP

• Scalable Tokio timer for multi-core machine

Sarek Skotåm

Applied Scientist in AWS S3

Sarek works as an Applied Scientist in the Automated Reasoning Group in S3. There he works on the Shuttle concurrency checker and on developing reference models and reference tests to ensure the correctness of S3 Express One Zone.

• Checking correctness of asynchronous code with Shuttle

Sean Klein

Software Engineer @ Oxide

Sean is a software engineer at Oxide, working on the control plane. He has worked on operating systems, browsers, and now, is writing Rust for big distributed systems across many server sleds.

Sean lives in Portland, and in his free time, you can find him running through Forest Park.

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/smklein.bsky.social

Github

https://github.com/smklein

• Futurelock And You

Srinivas Lade

Software Engineer at Eventual

Srinivas Lade is a software engineer at Eventual, turning Daft into the premier multimodal data processing framework. Prior to Eventual, he worked at Bodo.ai, building a Python JIT compiler for data processing and compute on HPC-based hardware. Srinivas graduated from CMU with a passion for systems and performance engineering, and has been riding the wave ever since.

Github

https://github.com/srilman

• Async Rust Meets Async Python: How Daft runs user defined Python coroutines from Tokio

Weston Pace

Data engineer at LanceDB

Weston is helping to develop the Lance file format, an open source format with better support for ML workloads. He comes from an open source data engineering background and is a PMC on Apache Arrow and Substrait. He's currently working at LanceDB, where he is trying to figure out how to make OLAP datasets work with AI & ML workloads, in particular, how to deal with multi-modal data, tables that grow sideways, and bringing secondary indices back to the columnar database world.

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/westonpace.bsky.social

Github

https://github.com/westonpace

• Less Tokio is More Tokio: Strategies for Accelerating a Rust Native Search Database

Wojciech Kargul

Senior Software Developer at Fathom.io

I am a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and a former professional road and track cyclist who has transformed my career into an inspiring journey through software engineering, fueled by a deep passion for innovation. Motivated by Rust's strong reputation within the GitHub community, I embraced the language as my primary tool for building robust, large-scale business systems. I continuously seek performance optimizations and design high-efficiency systems tailored to evolving business needs.

As an enthusiastic advocate for web3 technologies, I bring a forward-thinking perspective to my work. For several years, I have been executing ambitious Rust projects, seamlessly balancing architectural planning with hands-on development. By founding the Rust Gdańsk Meetup, I have cultivated a vibrant local developer community. Supported by global tech leaders, this initiative brings together hundreds of engineers to celebrate and expand their Rust expertise.

Beyond my professional pursuits, I am a dedicated marathon runner and a proud father of twins, embodying resilience and passion in every aspect of my life. My journey reflects not only a mastery of Rust but also a commitment to uplifting and inspiring the next generation of developers.

Github

https://github.com/wkargul

• Zero-Copy Chaos. When everything you knew about tokio performance stopped working