Nazmul Idris
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarNazmul Idris is a founder and Rust principal software engineer based in Austin with 12 years of experience building developer-facing tools across desktop, web, mobile and cloud. An ex-Googler who shipped work in Android Studio and Maps/Places APIs, he blends hands-on engineering, product and leadership—previously founding TRNQL where he raised $1.5M and launched Android/iOS SDKs. Today he leads R3BL, authoring a Rust TUI engine and terminal-hosted apps that enable collaborative Markdown editing and last-mile SaaS configuration over SSH, leveraging Rust, Tokio, WASM/WASI and TypeScript. He is an active open-source maintainer and contributor to security-focused projects like Ockam, improving Rust backends and CLI UX, and creates developer tutorials for developerlife.com. Known for pairing pragmatic product sense with low-level systems craft, he brings authenticity, play and storytelling (and occasional racing metaphors) into building delightful developer experiences.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (33)
authorizations10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
authentication10
user-authentication10
security10
commandline10
authorization10
command-line10
rust10
cli10
end-to-end-encryption9
kafka9
distributed-systems9
distributed-system9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:110 reviews, 46 PRs, 179 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nazmul primarily contributed to the backend and security aspects of the `ockam` repository, focusing on the Rust codebase. Their work included implementing features for the Ockam command-line interface, such as adding installation instructions, refactoring dependencies, and clarifying output related to Kafka support. They also addressed security concerns by fixing a typo in a portals app notification and improving the user experience of the enrollment process. Additionally, they updated rust API examples with colored output and simplified them.
policyenforcemente2eeidentitycredentials
nazmulidris/nazmulidris
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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