Kevin Boos
I'm a huge fan of Matrix, Rust, systems development, safe programming languages, and all things open source. I'm the creator and main dev of Robrix, a big contributor to the Makepad UI toolkit, and the tech lead of Project Robius. I also heavily use (and unwittingly test out) the matrix-rust-sdk. I was honored to be a part of the first Matrix Foundation Governing Board.
I'm currently a principal engineer at Futurewei Technologies and live in the Seattle area with my wife and (very old) pup, though I'm originally from Texas. Off the clock, I'm mostly into playing jazz, going backpacking in the wilderness, and otherwise recouping lost time from spending wayyy too long doing a PhD.
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Robrix is a "new" FOSS Matrix client written entirely from scratch in Rust, with some cool power user features like a dockable-tabs view of multiple rooms side-by-side, just like your favorite IDE. It's simple and flexible enough for casual chatters as well, and can seamlessly transition into a sleek mobile-friendly adaptive UI for narrow screens.
Robrix runs smoothly and consistently across mobile & desktop platforms, thanks to the underlying Makepad UI toolkit and Robius abstraction crates, which we also wrote ourselves in Rust. After several years of hard work on those components, we have finally reached the milestone of publishing Robrix to major app stores.
Join us to learn more, see some fun live demos, and give it a try yourself. We'll also preview some of our future ideas, such as making Matrix the best medium for coordinating and managing multi-agent workflows (even better than Telegram!).