Boats is a member of the language design, library, and cargo teams of the Rust Project. They are Senior Research Engineer working on Rust for Mozilla Research. Contributing to Rust since 2014, they've done design work for significant language extensions like generic associated types and constant generics. For the last year, Boats has been focused on adding async/await syntax for non-blocking I/O to Rust. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rustlatamconf