
From First Lines to First Clients: Carol Nichols on Building a Career in Rust
📅 Date: September 9, 2025 (Tuesday)
🕢 Time: 7:30 – 8:15 PM (EEST)
📍 Online
🔹 About the Event:
Clock out and log in! Join Carol Nichols – co-author of The Rust Programming Language and co-founder of Integer 32, the world’s first Rust-focused consultancy – in a fireside chat moderated by Caroline Morton. Carol will share her journey from Ruby developer to shaping Rust’s early ecosystem and building a thriving consulting business.
👉 What you’ll learn:
- Getting started: discovering Rust and landing the first real-world projects;
- Early challenges: what the ecosystem looked like then (and how it has grown);
- Consulting essentials: finding clients, pricing work, balancing open-source with paid gigs;
- Career pivots: leveraging experience from other languages to win Rust roles;
- Community and visibility: amplifying your voice through talks, writing, and crates.io contributions.
📌 Schedule:
- 5 min — Welcome & community updates
- 35 min — Interview with Carol Nichols
- 15 min — Live Q&A
🎙 Speaker:
Carol Nichols – co-author of The Rust Programming Language, member of the Crates.io team, Project Director at the Rust Foundation, co-founder of Integer 32, and co-creator of the Rust in Motion video series.
Ticket Options
FREE
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