Josh Triplett
Rust Strategic Advisor
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Triplett is a veteran software engineer and open-source leader with 26 years of experience, currently advising on Rust strategy and building a high-performance Rust-based build service that compiles up to 120x faster than a developer laptop. A long-time member of the Rust project teams and prolific contributor to critical projects—from the Rust compiler, Cargo, and Clippy to libgit2, git, zlib-ng, Bitcoin Core, Neovim, and Wasmtime—he blends deep language internals expertise with practical systems engineering. He has driven performance and compatibility improvements (notably zlib-ng and flate2), implemented cross-language bindings (libc, git2-rs), and helped harden tooling and build systems across large codebases. Formerly a principal engineer at Intel and a strategic consultant hiring and leading top Rust talent, he pairs technical leadership with open-source stewardship and developer experience work. Known for thoughtful, low-level fixes that improve long-term maintainability, he brings PhD-level rigor to pragmatic engineering and ecosystem strategy.
26 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityA.S., Computer Science, A.S., Computer Science at Portland Community College
Github Skills (124)
libgit210
performance-analytics10
cargo10
compiler-development10
testing10
command-line-interface10
clippy10
process-management10
bash10
bitcoins10
c1110
cffi10
autotools10
c1710
cryptocurrency10
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/cargo
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
The Rust package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 43 commits, 50 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the "cargo" package manager by addressing several testing and build-related issues. Their commits focused on refactoring tests, improving the build process by managing environment variables, and preventing the installation of optional dependencies in some scenarios. The user also made adjustments to copyright notices, build help messages, and code formatting within the project.
rustpackage-managercargo
rust-lang/git2-rs
Mar 2016 - May 2022
libgit2 bindings for Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 48 commits, 45 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `libgit2-rs` project by adding new bindings and functionalities to interact with the libgit2 C library. Their work included implementing bindings for new features like `git_repository_open_ext`, `git_message_prettify`, `git_reference_has_log`, and functions related to patches, index flags and tree updates. They also fixed typos and added support for features like zlib-ng and strict object creation, improving the library's functionality and integration with the underlying C library.
libgit2-bindingsrustlibgit2git-gui
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