Alice Ryhl

It actually all started with Minecraft.

I wanted to write my own mod for Minecraft, so I learned Java.

I didn't get very far with the Minecraft modding, but that's where it started.

This was just before I started in high school.

And then after high school, I had a year where I worked full time as a software engineer.

And then I moved on to starting my bachelor.

Did that for three years.

And then I did a master's for two years.

I actually started part-time at the same time as when I started my master's, and then I switched to full-time after I finished.

I've been doing Rust for a long time.

When I was in school, I spent a lot of time on what's called the Rust users forum.

Well, I was answering questions, really.

I have maybe 10,000 posts on there or something.

At some point, I also started being active in some...

chat servers, the Discord server for something called Tokyo.

I kept doing that, answering questions.

When I saw common questions, I would fix the documentation.

That's how I got into Tokyo, which I'm now one of the maintainers of.

So Tokyo is, well, it's an asynchronous runtime for Rust.

You can think of it as the standard library for Rust when you're using async.