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Danila Gornushko

Rust Developer

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Summary

Rust developer with 6+ years of experience in software engineering and 2.5 years of active Rust development. Specializing in building high-performance and reliable solutions across a wide range: from systems programming and embedded systems to backend services and CLI utilities. Deep understanding of the language (unsafe, async, macros), extensive Linux administration experience, and expertise in high-performance systems. Active open-source community member and contributor to key Embedded Rust ecosystem projects.

Key Competencies

Rust (Expert Level)

  • Core: Deep understanding of async/await (Pin, Wakers), unsafe, FFI, no_std, mastery of lifetimes, Send/Sync, atomics, and atomic ordering.
  • Metaprogramming: Declarative and procedural macros, deep knowledge of the Rust type system.
  • Ecosystem: tokio, axum, serde, tracing, thiserror, bytes, clap, criterion, bindgen/cc.
  • Specializations: Backend services, CLI utilities, systems programming, embedded systems, GUI (GTK4, Tauri).
  • Performance: Profiling (perf, flamegraph), benchmarking, code optimization for reduced CPU/RAM usage.

Backend & Infrastructure

  • Web services: Axum, Diesel ORM, gRPC, Protobuf, REST API, WebSockets
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, InfluxDB
  • Linux administration: SystemD, network configuration, filesystems, SSH, system monitoring, ZFS, application packaging, iptables, production server support
  • DevOps: Docker/docker-compose, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Forgejo), Ansible, runner setup
  • Monitoring: Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, application tracing

Systems Programming

  • C (Expert Level): Low-level development, driver writing, linker scripts, memory barriers
  • Debugging and Profiling: GDB, strace, valgrind, perf, static analysis (PVS-Studio)
  • Build: CMake, Make, cross-compilation, build systems

Embedded Systems

  • Microcontrollers: STM32, ESP32, nRF52, RP2040, AVR
  • Ecosystem: Embassy, esp-hal, probe-rs, defmt, RTT, no_std/no_alloc development
  • RTOS and frameworks: FreeRTOS, ESP-IDF, ChibiOS, Embedded Linux
  • Protocols: CAN, USB, BLE, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, UART, RS-485, USB PD
  • Tools: JTAG/SWD (OpenOCD, probe-rs), logic analyzer, oscilloscope, libsigrok

Security and Cryptography

  • Applied cryptography: Hashing (SHA-256, SHA-3), symmetric (AES) and asymmetric encryption (RSA, ECC), elliptic curves (secp256k1, Ed25519), digital signatures (ECDSA)
  • Information security: Understanding of attack vectors, side-channel attacks, constant-time algorithms
  • Reverse engineering: Software analysis (Ghidra), network protocol analysis (Wireshark), USB protocol analysis (usbmon)

Additional Skills

  • Python: Scripting, automation, data analysis, web scraping (pytest, numpy, scipy, sympy, pandas, polars, playwright, uv/poetry)
  • Frontend: Vue 3, Pinia, Vite, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Mobile/Desktop: Tauri (Rust backend + Vue frontend), native GUI (GTK4, native-windows-gui)
  • Web3: Basic understanding of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana; some experience with Solana SDK
  • Other languages (basic): C++, Ruby (Sinatra), Kotlin, Bash/Shell scripting
  • Hardware development: KiCAD, EasyEDA, schematic design, PCB layout, SMD/QFN assembly

Work Approach and Personal Qualities

  • Proactivity and responsibility: I take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion, initiate discussions, and seek solutions when needed.
  • Teamwork: Openly share ideas, participate in code reviews, help colleagues, and accept constructive feedback.
  • Code quality: Write readable and maintainable code, cover key logic with tests, and keep documentation up to date.
  • Continuous development: Keep up with Rust advancements, learn new tools and practices, and share them with the team and community.

Work Experience

Rust/C Programmer | Minimax-94, Moscow

March 2024 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  • Developed and debugged firmware for STM32 microcontrollers in C and Rust.
  • Created test utilities and scripts for data analysis in Python.
  • Designed console and GUI applications (GTK4, Tauri) in Rust for interacting with hardware.
Rust/Embedded Developer | Korotkov (Sole Proprietorship), Moscow

March 2023 — February 2024 (1 year)

  • Developed a full cycle of electronic modules for escape rooms: circuit design, programming (AVR, ESP32 in C/C++/Rust), assembly, and debugging.
  • Implemented a distributed system of devices with network communication over CAN bus and a custom protocol.
  • Created a backend in Rust (Axum) for quest management and real-time device monitoring.
  • Introduced an OTA firmware update system over CAN bus using Raspberry Pi.
Junior DevOps | Rostelecom Information Technologies, Moscow

November 2021 — February 2023 (1 year 4 months)

  • Developed a web service for server monitoring (Ruby, Sinatra, Bootstrap).
  • Participated in service migrations and implemented containerization (Docker, docker-compose).
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Programmer, System Administrator | Freelance, Moscow

June 2019 — September 2021 (2 years 4 months)

  • Administation of Linux servers, deployed web services, developed projects on Arduino and Python, and native Android applications (Kotlin) for controlling devices via BLE.

Open Source and Projects

  • Active contributor to key projects in the Embedded Rust ecosystem: embassy-rs, esp-hal, probe-rs.
  • Author and maintainer of several libraries (crates) on crates.io.
  • Maintainer of packages in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR).
  • Project portfolio available on GitHub: github.com/okhsunrog.
  • Regularly write articles and documentation, actively participate in the open-source community.

Education and Languages

  • Education: High school
  • Languages: Russian (native), English (C1, advanced) — fluent in reading and writing technical documentation, participating in discussions, and code review in English