I am a mathematician turned Machine Learning Engineer turned Software Engineer.
I was born and raised in Rome (Italy 🇮🇹), but I spent six years in London's (UK 🇬🇧) tech scene.

• 💬 I regularly blog on A Learning Journal. You can subscribe to my newsletter to be notified when new content is published.
• 📕 I'm the author of:
  • Zero To Production In Rust, a hands-on introduction to backend development in Rust.
  • 100 exercises to learn Rust, a learn-by-doing introduction to the Rust programming language.

I have been speaking at conferences (QCon, RustFest, RustLab, CodeMotion, RustyDays, EuroRust) and meetups. You can find recordings and slides for all my talks here.

I am a Principal Engineering Consultant at Mainmatter. I was previously a Senior Engineer at AWS and a Principal Engineer at TrueLayer.

I am primarily active in the Rust ecosystem.
My main focus currently is Pavex, a new breed of Rust web framework. You can learn more about it on pavex.dev.

My portfolio of contributions is varied:

• I wrote Build Your Own JIRA with Rust, a hands-on workshop to get started with Rust;
• I am the author of a bunch of Rust crates for various purposes. In particular:
  • wiremock-rs, HTTP mocking for black-box testing;
  • cargo-chef, a cargo sub-command to leverage caching in Rust Docker builds;
  • tracing-bunyan-formatter, a formatting layer for the tracing instrumentation framework;
• I spent more than a year contributing to the Rust numerical ecosystem (ndarray, ndarray-stats and linfa);

• ✍️ You can reach out to me on Twitter, on LinkedIn or at contact (at) lpalmieri.com.