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Organizer of [RustFest](http://www.rustfest.eu/).  
Working at [Mozilla](https://www.mozilla.org/).  
Studied Computer Science at [RWTH Aachen](http://www.rwth-aachen.de/) and [UiS](http://www.uis.no/) in Stavanger, Norway.  
Programming a lot of [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org/), C++, Swift, Kotlin, Python and JavaScript.  
Previously a lot of [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/).  
Speaking about projects and topics I am interested in. See [my previous talks](/talks).

### Alumni positions

Co-Organizer of the [Rust User Group Cologne](http://rust.cologne/),
Co-Organizer of [otsconf Dortmund](https://otsconf.com/),
coach at [OpenTechSchool Dortmund](http://www.opentechschool.org/dortmund/),
contributor to [Redis](http://redis.io) and maintainer of [hiredis](https://github.com/redis/hiredis) and several client libraries.



## Links

* Mastodon: [@jer@hachyderm.io](https://hachyderm.io/@jer)
* GitHub: [@badboy](https://github.com/badboy)
* [Divelog](https://fnordig.de/divelog/)

## Projects

### Current projects

* [What Rust is it?](http://www.whatrustisit.com/) - Show the current Rust versions and next (planned) release date.
  * [@whatrustisit@botsin.space](https://botsin.space/@whatrustisit) - accompanying Mastodon bot.
* [#SoundOfTheDay](https://fnordig.de/soundoftheday/) - Always showing the last sound of the day I posted on Mastodon.

### Older projects

* [semantic-rs](https://github.com/semantic-rs/semantic-rs) - Automatic crate publishing
* [Hello, Rust!](http://www.hellorust.com/) - Resources, articles, links & example around Rust & WebAssembly
* [rdb-rs](http://rdb.fnordig.de/) - fast and efficient RDB parsing utility, including full documentation on the RDB file format
* [hiredis](https://github.com/redis/hiredis) - the minimalistic C client for Redis, as well as wrapper libraries: [hiredis-rb](https://github.com/redis/hiredis-rb/) ([gem](https://rubygems.org/gems/hiredis)), [hiredis-node](https://github.com/redis/hiredis-node) ([npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hiredis)), [hiredis-py](https://github.com/redis/hiredis-py) ([pypi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hiredis/))
* [try.redis.io](http://try.redis.io) - Online Redis REPL.
* [badbill](https://github.com/badboy/badbill) - A client for the [Billomat](http://www.billomat.com/en/api/) API
* [Redis FAQ](/redis-faq/) - an unofficial Redis FAQ with user questions

## Services

* [etherpad](https://pad.fnordig.de/) - real-time collaborative document editing
* [rezepte](http://rezepte.fnordig.de/) - a small database of recipes (german)

## Writing

* [Network Function Offloading in Virtualized Environments](https://tmp.fnordig.de/uni/master-thesis/nf-offloading-in-virtualized-environments_jan-erik_rediger.pdf) (Master Thesis)