Getting Started with Rust: Getting Your First Rust Job

What is this session about?
After you have done the Rust tutorials, read the Rust book and feel confident about your Rust skills then you might have fallen in love with Rust and want to work with it full-time. In this session we will have Marcus Grass talk about his journey moving from a Java Developer to a full time Rust Developer. Come learn how he made is move and how you can too!


Why should you attend?
Changing programming languages professionally can be hard. Learning new tools and libraries can take time that you might not have. Hearing from someone else’s transition can be helpful in saving you time and energy to make your move more seamless.

Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in learning and building with Rust.

Any pre-requisites
None

Speaker:

Marcus Grass – Rust Developer – Embark Studios
I'm Marcus Grass, a software engineer working with Rust at Embark Studios, a video game company.My previous experiences have been in Java microservices at companies with high security and performance demands, an online bank and an online pharmacy, as well as some Python ML work.When coding for fun I often work on fairly low-level Linux applications, the most complex one being a pure Rust X11 window manager where I try to push the boundaries of efficient Rust code without making the code completely unmaintainable.

Korey Stegared-Pace – Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Korey has a passion for both educating and inspiring others on what is possible with AI and how they can use it to build a new generation of products. He has mentored and guided startups through both the challenges and successes of working with AI. As a Cloud Advocate in the Microsoft Stockholm Reactor, his main goal is to expand AI literacy, support developers, and grow the AI community in Stockholm and beyond.