Nazmul Idris
Founder, Rust Principal Software Engineer, Maintainer at R3BL
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNazmul Idris is a founder and principal software engineer with 12+ years building developer-facing products and infrastructure, currently leading Rust-based TUI/CLI and cloud-hosted terminal apps at R3BL from Austin. An ex-Googler who shipped features across Android Studio, Maps, and Media Framework, he blends deep systems and UX sensibilities with product and team leadership. He founded and scaled TRNQL, raised $1.5M seed funding, and delivered mobile SDKs and backend systems used by developers and ML workflows. Active in open source, he contributes Rust backend and security improvements to projects like ockam and publishes developer tutorials and video content. Equally comfortable coding in Rust, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, WASM/WASI and designing UX, he focuses on efficient, fast developer workflows for terminal-first cloud environments. Beyond engineering, he brings storytelling and community-building experience from running large meetups and creator-focused platforms.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (30)
authorizations10
command-line-interface10
user-authentication10
authentication10
security10
authorization10
command-line10
rust10
cli10
end-to-end-encryption9
kafka9
distributed-systems9
encryption9
trust8
apidoc8
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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