Speakers

Meet the speakers for the RUSTAsia 2025 conference!

Tim McNamara

" Rust for the rest of the world "

In this talk, Tim delves into how the Rust community can expand its inclusivity beyond Western norms by rethinking language barriers and cultural dynamics, encouraging attendees to create more diverse and welcoming environments within their projects.

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Florian Gilcher

" Ferrocene - The Present and Future of Rust in Safety "

Rust, released in 2015, has rapidly emerged as a frontrunner in software safety, particularly in Functional Safety and SDV spaces. This talk explores how this young language became central to open source safety initiatives, examining current projects, challenges, and future directions.

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Daniel Thompson-Yvetot

" Building Secure Software : A Tauri-Inspired Approach "

Explore practical approaches to "shifting security left" in modern application development. Through real-world examples from Tauri and the Rust ecosystem, learn how to implement security-first practices in your development workflow.

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Orhun Parmaksız

" Cooking up TUIs with Ratatui "

A hands-on workshop exploring terminal UI development with Rust and Ratatui. Learn core concepts and patterns while building a real TUI application. Basic Rust knowledge required. Bring your laptop and ideas for creating your own terminal interfaces.

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Tomas Tauber

" Elevating Parsing in Rust : A Peek into pest3 "

Explore pest, a unique parser generator in Rust featuring PEG grammar and dedicated tooling. This presentation examines its current capabilities, discusses existing challenges, and introduces pest3's innovations, including enhanced trivia handling and typed tree API, designed to improve complex language parsing.

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Adam Chalmers

" Building CAD with Rust "

At Zoo.dev, they're building a cloud-powered CAD suite using Rust across their entire stack - from API servers to WebAssembly frontend, CLI tools, and language tooling. This talk demonstrates how Rust enabled code reuse between backend and frontend while ensuring consistent visual output through their testing framework.

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Hai Chi

" Practical and Efficient Rust/Go Interoperation "

In this talk, Hai Chi will share the problems and solutions in Rust and Go interoperability, which will include memory alignment, asynchronous system docking, macro-based code generation, asm-based CGO optimization; also it will include some thoughts on designing a user-friendly FFI framework.

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Zehuan Li

" Architecting the Confidential - VM Guest OS in Rust: Runtime, Kernel Standard Library, and Kernel Services "

Learn how to design an OS for confidential VMs with three key components: kernel runtime, standard library, and services. Discover how to develop unikernels using Ring0 privilege level and create Linux ABI-compatible systems. Gain practical knowledge to build Unix-like kernels or compile services into unikernels.

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Dmitry Dyachkov

" Building Microsecond-Scale Trading Systems with AI Risk Management in Rust "

Learn how to build ultra-low latency trading systems with AI risk management using a dual-path architecture for microsecond-level execution. We'll cover lock-free structures, SIMD optimizations, GPU-accelerated ML risk models, and zero-copy market data processing.

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Renan Florez

" From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs : Scaling a Blockchain from 40 to 1,800 TPS with Rust "

Learn how CloudWalk transformed their blockchain system from 40 to 1,800 TPS using Rust, RocksDB, and Inferno. Discover practical insights on performance optimization, custom consensus mechanisms, and maintaining reliability during critical infrastructure upgrades.

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Yuyuan Yuan

" Building Efficient and Scalable Distributed Systems with Zenoh: A New Protocol for V2V, Autonomous Systems, and Robotics "

An introduction to Zenoh's core features including pub/sub mechanisms, edge storage, and network adaptability, demonstrating how to implement these using Rust. Learn practical insights for building distributed systems. Suitable for all Rust developers and those interested in foundational protocols.

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Dean Little

" Solana : The Blockchain for Rustaceans "

A proud Rustacean since 2017, Dean is an expert in Bitcoin, Solana, and Secp256k1 with a robust background spanning blockchain, cryptography, distributed systems, and GPGPU. He currently serves as a cryptography researcher and protocol developer at Jupiter, the world’s largest DEX aggregator, Chief Scientist at Zeus Network, where he pioneers deep integration of the Bitcoin protocol on Solana, and Lead Curator of Blueshift, an education provider revolutionizing how we teach Rust development on Solana. Dean was the first to enable quantum-resistant cryptography for Solana wallets and to implement the complete Bitcoin protocol—including Schnorr signatures—in SVM. An avid polyglot fluent in multiple languages, he also leads Developer Relations for the Mandarin and Cantonese markets at the Solana Foundation. With over 100 open source Rust repositories on GitHub, his work focuses on creating advanced cryptographic protocols, tooling, SDKs, and smart contracts in Rust (with occasional ventures into eBPF assembly). His mission is to promote privacy and economic sovereignty on a global scale.

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