Dirkjan Ochtman is a professional software engineer since 2007, mostly in smaller companies (like startups). Active in open source since the early 2000s (PHP, Mercurial, Python). Started using Rust in 2016, now exclusively using Rust and getting paid for OSS maintenance on projects like rustls, HickoryDNS, Quinn and others (more complete list).
Dirkjan Ochtman has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 268: Maintainer Month 2025 with Dirkjan Ochtman on Sustaining Critical Rust Libraries
May 9th, 2025 | 34 mins 18 secs
Kicking off our 2025 Maintainer Month series, Dirkjan joins Richard to talk Rust maintenance, open source funding, and sustaining projects without burning out.