AWSs Shane Miller to head the newly created Rust Foundation

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Sources tell ZDNet that the Rust Foundation will announce on April 12 that Shane Miller, Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior engineering manager, has been elected the first chairperson of the newly created Rust Foundation. Miller confirmed shed been "elected chair of the Rust Foundation by the board of directors in our March 9th meeting." Miller, who leads the Rust Platform team for AWS, has been a software engineer for almost 30 years. At AWS, Miller has been a leader in open-source strategic initiatives and software engineering and delivery. Google, for example, is backing its use in the Apache HTTP web server project and Rust can now be used in Android as well.

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