Björn

Blog posts and open-source work

About

Björn

  • Systems engineer
  • bjorn@tweedegolf.com

Björn is a systems engineer with a degree in Computer Sciences and nearly a decade of experience in Rust.

He specializes in low level engineering and has contributed to several open-source projects, most notably the Rust compiler itself. He is also the author and maintainer of Rustc_codegen_cranelift.

At TG, Björn has been working on sudo-rs and zlib-rs.

Open-source work

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zlib-rs

zlib-rs is a memory-safe Rust implementation of zlib, the widely-used compression library, used primarily on the web to provide gzip compression to the text/html/js/css we send around.

The initial development of zlib-rs was started and partly funded by Prossimo. It's now governed by the Trifecta Tech Foundation as part of their Data Compression initiative.

sudo-rs

Sudo-rs is a memory safe implementation of sudo and su, a project by Prossimo jointly implemented by Ferrous Systems and Tweede golf.

Read more in this blog post.