Daniel Faust
Senior Rust Engineer at ECOS Technology GmbH
Oestrich-Winkel, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Faust is a Senior Rust Engineer with 15 years of professional software experience and 24 years of programming practice, currently driving Rust development at ECOS Technology in Germany. He combines deep systems-level expertise in Rust (6 years) with TypeScript full-stack experience, having shipped production software at companies like German Edge Cloud and limango. An adaptable, goal-oriented engineer, he thrives with autonomy while actively collaborating and mentoring teams. Daniel is an active open-source contributor, notably improving cross-platform filesystem notifications in the widely used notify-rs project by hardening tests and fixing platform-specific event bugs. He prioritizes delivering robust, well-tested products and often focuses on pragmatic solutions that bridge backend reliability with developer ergonomics.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Technical University of Munich
German, English
Github Skills (13)
automated-tests10
filesystem10
rust10
cross-platform10
multiplatform10
file-operations10
fileio10
platform-independent10
testing10
watchers9
linux8
macos8
windows8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
notify-rs/notify
Jun 2016 - Feb 2019
🔭 Cross-platform filesystem notification library for Rust.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 22 reviews, 90 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `notify-rs/notify` project by implementing and refining tests for file system notifications. Their work included refactoring existing tests, adding new test cases, and addressing platform-specific issues. Key contributions involved ensuring the accuracy of event handling across different operating systems, particularly concerning file and directory operations. The user also modified the codebase to address bugs related to file move and rename events and optimized the tests.
filesystemrustfilesystem-eventswatchercross-platform
dfaust/kde-color-folder
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
KDE service menu for changing the color of specific folders
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 6 years 1 month
linuxkdemenuservice-menukde-service-menu
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