About

Matthias Endler is a senior software engineer, Rust consultant, and open-source author from Bavaria, Germany, currently based in Düsseldorf.

He is the founder of corrode, a Rust consulting agency that helps engineering teams adopt and scale Rust from prototype to production. He also hosts the Rust in Production podcast, interviewing teams about real-world Rust adoption. He is the creator and maintainer of lychee, a fast, asynchronous link checker, as well as community resources like analysis-tools.dev (cataloging 600+ static and dynamic analysis tools) and Idiomatic Rust, having initiated over 100 open-source projects.

He earned his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Bayreuth and previously worked as a backend engineer at trivago focusing on performance and scalability. Working with Rust since 2015, he founded corrode in 2021 to dedicate himself full-time to the Rust ecosystem.

A lifelong computer and Linux enthusiast, he has maintained his personal website endler.dev for over 25 years, writing in-depth articles on Rust systems programming, backend architecture, performance optimization, and code quality, and is active across GitHub and open-source communities under the handle mre.