Andrew Gauger
Software Engineer at The Rust Programming Language
Salem, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Gauger is a pragmatic software engineer and infrastructure veteran with three decades of experience making critical systems reliable for nonprofits, healthcare, and government at scale. He blends hands-on engineering—from SANs, AD, and Kubernetes to Ruby on Rails and Rust libraries—with pragmatic architecture and cost-aware platform decisions, having led cloud migrations (and rollbacks) and implemented ERP-to-web integrations. As a project lead on the Rust Cookbook and contributor to widely used Rust crates and tooling, he pairs developer-facing documentation and CI/CD work with deep backend maintenance. He runs his own consultancy serving public-good clients, invents reusable protocol tooling (mcp_authorization) used across languages, and speaks about formalized proofs of his designs. Known for translating messy operational needs into durable architectures, he keeps business, operators, and engineers aligned so decisions survive real-world pressure.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School graduate, High School graduate at Lake Havasu High SchoolMCSA MCITP: Server Administrator MCP MCTS, Server Engineering: Windows, MCSA MCITP: Server Administrator MCP MCTS, Server Engineering: Windows at MicrosoftA+ Network+ Security+ CE Linux + Cloud +, A+ Network+ Security+ CE Linux + Cloud + at CompTiaSchool for Gifted Children (IQ placement), School for Gifted Children (IQ placement) at Starline ElementaryMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology at Western Governors UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Everest College
Stackoverflow
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69answers
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Github Skills (35)
github-ci10
backtrace10
lib10
testing10
rspec10
bash10
rails10
cicd10
mdbook10
asn110
openssl10
build-automation10
activerecord10
aes-encryption10
error-handling10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang-nursery/rust-cookbook
May 2017 - Jan 2021
https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 38 commits, 206 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on the project's build and deployment infrastructure. They updated the CI/CD configuration (ci/deploy.sh and ci/install_deps.sh), likely managing dependencies, build processes, and deployment procedures using tools like `mdbook` and `pyenv`. They also made changes to the build process using `build.rs`, and reverted a change that affected the mdbook version used.
rust
rust-lang-deprecated/error-chain
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Error boilerplate for Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `error-chain` Rust library. Their contributions include adding examples for backtrace functionality, renaming and hiding a macro, and preparing for and releasing multiple versions of the library (0.12.1, 0.12.2, 0.12.3, and 0.12.4). Additionally, they addressed failing tests and introduced changes related to bare trait objects for deprecations, indicating a focus on library maintenance and adapting to Rust language evolution.
rust
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