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Rustacean
Fast β€’ Safe β€’ Concurrent β€” Code with purpose, deploy with confidence
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About Me

  • πŸ¦€ Proud Rustacean building the next generation of high-performance systems
  • πŸš€ Maintaining Shimmy β€” Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine, OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native (5.7k ⭐)
  • πŸ“Έ Built CrabCamera v0.7.0 - Professional desktop camera + audio plugin for Tauri (166 ⭐)
  • πŸ”€ Released ShimmyTok v0.7.1 - Pure Rust tokenizer for GGUF models, 100% llama.cpp parity
  • 🎬 Built Muxide v0.2.0 - Pure Rust MP4 muxer, zero deps, no FFmpeg (70 ⭐)
  • πŸ” Maintaining Gatewarden - Hardened Keygen.sh license validation for Rust (Ed25519, replay protection)
  • πŸ› οΈ Released Airframe β€” Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine for GGUF (no C++, no Python, no llama.cpp)
  • πŸ”§ Released Logician v0.2.0 β€” Sort-checked SMT solver driver for Rust (Z3, CVC5, Yices2)
  • 🌊 Released FeedMe β€” Memory-safe streaming ETL pipeline in Rust (PII redaction, DLQ, Prometheus)
  • 🎯 Released Schoolmarm β€” Production-grade GBNF grammar-constrained decoding for LLMs
  • 🎡 Building Auxide Ecosystem (4 crates) β€” Real-time audio kernel, 50+ DSP nodes, I/O, MIDI. Pure Rust, provably RT-safe
  • ⚑ Released Wanderlust β€” Windows PATH cleanup utility that actually works
  • πŸ’¬ Ask me about Rust, Go, Scala, AI Infrastructure, Systems Architecture, SMT Solvers, WebGPU
  • ⚑ Fun fact: Military precision meets Rust's memory safety guarantees
  • πŸŽ–οΈ Former 9/11 era Staff Sergeant, United States Air Force β€” 20+ years as a software engineer; devoted husband and father

πŸ”₯ Current Focus

Shipping production Rust AI infrastructure β€” Shimmy (5.7k⭐), Airframe (WebGPU inference), Auxide Ecosystem (4 RT-audio crates), Logician (SMT), Schoolmarm (GBNF), FeedMe (streaming ETL). Building the stack so you don't have to.


🌟 Featured Projects

πŸš€ Shimmy Stars πŸ”₯

The Privacy-First OpenAI Alternative - 5.1MB single-binary Rust inference server. 5.7k+ stars! Complete, live, and the Ollama alternative developers actually want. FREE forever, no asterisks.

Rust OpenAI Compatible GGUF Zero-Config 5MB Binary FREE Forever

Language Forks Featured on Hacker News

🧠 Airframe Stars

Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine for GGUF models β€” The library I wrote, all in Rust. No C++, no Python, no llama.cpp. Runs on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon.

Rust WebGPU GGUF Inference Zero-C++ Cross-GPU

Language Status

πŸ“Έ CrabCamera Stars

Professional Desktop Camera + Audio Plugin - v0.7.0 Tauri plugin with MediaFoundation controls, synchronized A/V recording, auto-capture quality validation. 134 ⭐ and growing!

Rust Tauri Professional Controls Cross-Platform Production Ready 63 Tests

Language Version Production Ready

οΏ½ Muxide Stars

Pure Rust MP4 Muxer - Zero deps, no FFmpeg. Feed it encoded frames, get standards-compliant MP4. H.264, H.265, AV1, AAC, Opus.

Rust MP4 Muxer Video Zero Dependencies Standards Compliant

Language Version Status


🎡 Auxide Audio Ecosystem

A modular, real-time-safe audio processing stack built entirely in Rust. From kernel to I/O, every component is designed for deterministic, low-latency performance.

Public Crates

🎡 Auxide Stars

Audio graph kernel with provable RT-safety and deterministic execution. Correct-by-construction graphs, zero allocations in hot paths. The foundation for next-generation audio applications.

Rust Audio Real-Time DSP Graph-Based RT-Safe

Language Forks Status

⚑ Auxide-DSP Stars

50+ RT-safe DSP nodes β€” oscillators, filters, effects, envelopes, modulators, and utilities. Complete toolkit for professional audio synthesis and processing.

Rust DSP Audio Processing Real-Time Safe Synthesis Effects

Language Forks Status

⚑ Auxide-IO Stars

High-performance real-time audio I/O for Auxide DSP graphs. RT-safe streaming with buffer adaptation, channel routing, and cross-platform hardware output via CPAL.

Rust Audio I/O Real-Time CPAL Cross-Platform

Language Forks Status

🎡 Auxide-MIDI Stars

Real-time MIDI input and polyphonic synthesis for Auxide DSP graphs. Voice allocation, CC mapping, and seamless integration with auxide-dsp nodes.

Rust MIDI Real-Time Polyphonic Synthesis

Language Forks Status

Coming Soon

⏳ Auxide-Conductor

Multi-engine orchestration layer β€” coordinate multiple Auxide graphs across threads, manage real-time priority inheritance, and route audio between engines with zero-copy.

Rust Orchestration Multi-Thread Zero-Copy Real-Time

Status Progress

⏳ Auxide-Proto

Protocol definitions and RPC layer for the Auxide ecosystem β€” enable distributed audio processing, remote control surfaces, and plugin discovery across a network of real-time audio nodes.

Rust Protocol RPC Distributed Network

Status Progress

⏳ Auxide-Server

Network-accessible audio processing server β€” host Auxide graphs as a service, accept streaming audio over WebSockets, and expose DSP pipelines via a REST/WS API for integration with any application.

Rust Server WebSocket REST API Streaming

Status


Production-Ready AI Agent Framework - Built in Rust, 97% faster than Python alternatives. Complete framework for building AI-powered automation workflows.

Rust AI Agents Production Ready 97% Faster

Language Status

🌿 Botanica Stars

Professional botanical cultivation database with AI-powered plant insights.

Rust AI Insights Data Model Open Source

Language Status

πŸ“ Logician Stars

Sort-checked SMT solver driver for Rust β€” Fluent Term API, multi-solver fallback (Z3, CVC5, Yices2), process watchdog, async support. v0.2.0 released.

Rust SMT Z3 CVC5 Yices2 Formal Verification

Language Version Status

🌊 FeedMe Stars

Memory-safe streaming ETL pipeline in Rust β€” Ownership transfer, bounded resources, PII redaction, validation, dead-letter queues, Prometheus metrics. Production-ready.

Rust Streaming ETL PII Redaction DLQ Prometheus

Language Status

🎯 Schoolmarm Stars

Production-grade GBNF grammar-constrained decoding for LLMs β€” Zero dependencies, no unsafe code, pure Rust.

Rust GBNF Grammar Constrained Decoding LLM Zero Deps

Language Status

⚑ Wanderlust Stars

Because your Windows PATH is a dumpster β€” Wanderlust silences the entropy, cleans the garbage, and makes your terminal actually work.

Rust Windows PATH CLI Terminal

Language Status


πŸ› οΈ Technology Stack

Core Languages πŸ¦€

Rust Rustacean Go TypeScript Python JavaScript PHP C++ Shell

AI & Performance

GGUF LLaMA OpenAI API SMT Solvers WebGPU HuggingFace Transformers

Infrastructure & DevOps

Docker AWS GitHub Actions Linux Tauri


πŸ“Š GitHub Analytics

πŸ“ˆ Two Years of Shipping

Year One β€” 2025 Year Two β€” 2026
Metric Count
πŸ”₯ Contributions 3,300+
πŸ“ Commits 2,500+
πŸ”€ Pull Requests 50+
πŸ“¦ Releases 80+
πŸ—οΈ Repos Created 65
⭐ Stars 3,000+
🍴 Forks 300+
Metric Count (YTD)
πŸ”₯ Contributions 3,354
πŸ“ Commits 2,500+
πŸ”€ Pull Requests 50+
πŸ“¦ Releases 70+
πŸ—οΈ Repos Created 46
⭐ Stars 3,000+
🍴 Forks 300+

More ass kicked than ever.

Stats & Streak

Languages & Activity

Contribution Graph (2025–Present)

Followers Stars Commits Releases


πŸ’ Sponsors

Corporate Backer:

ZephyrCloudIO

ZephyrCloudIO

Current Sponsors:
@gqf2008 | @alistairheath

GitHub Sponsors


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  1. shimmy shimmy Public

    ⚑ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine β€” OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary.

    Rust 5.7k 550

  2. crabcamera crabcamera Public

    Professional desktop camera plugin for Tauri with automated quality validation and advanced hardware controls. Zero-config cross-platform solution for photography apps, surveillance systems, and au…

    Rust 167 20

  3. muxide muxide Public

    Pure Rust MP4 muxer β€” zero deps, no FFmpeg. Feed it encoded frames, get a standards-compliant MP4. H.264, H.265, AV1, AAC, Opus.

    Rust 71 10

  4. shimmytok shimmytok Public

    Pure Rust GGUF tokenizer: 100% llama.cpp parity, zero C/C++ FFI, zero unsafe, WASM-ready. Free forever.

    Rust 23 4

  5. airframe airframe Public

    Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine for GGUF models. No C++, no Python, no llama.cpp. Runs on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon.

    Rust 12 3

  6. shimmyjinja shimmyjinja Public

    Rust 1 2