From First Lines to First Clients: Carol Nichols on Building a Career in Rust

🚀 Date: September 9, 2025 (Tuesday)
✨ Time: 7:30 – 8:15 PM (EEST)
✨ Online

ℹ️ About the Event:
Clock out and log in! Join Carol Nichols – co-author of The Rust Programming Language and co-founder of Integer 32, the world’s first Rust-focused consultancy – in a fireside chat moderated by Caroline Morton. Carol will share her journey from Ruby developer to shaping Rust’s early ecosystem and building a thriving consulting business.

🎯 What you’ll learn:

• Getting started: discovering Rust and landing the first real-world projects;
• Early challenges: what the ecosystem looked like then (and how it has grown);
• Consulting essentials: finding clients, pricing work, balancing open-source with paid gigs;
• Career pivots: leveraging experience from other languages to win Rust roles;
• Community and visibility: amplifying your voice through talks, writing, and crates.io contributions.

📋 Schedule:

• 5 min — Welcome & community updates
• 35 min — Interview with Carol Nichols
• 15 min — Live Q&A

🎤 Speaker:
Carol Nichols – co-author of The Rust Programming Language, member of the Crates.io team, Project Director at the Rust Foundation, co-founder of Integer 32, and co-creator of the Rust in Motion video series.