Dirkjan Ochtman

Dirkjan is an accomplished open source maintainer with 20 years of software engineering experience and 4 years as a Director. His interests span technical challenges, high-performance teams, software engineering practices, and long-term product thinking about how technology can better serve business goals.


Known as a maintainer in the Rust ecosystem for crates such as rustls and quinn.

Appears in

  • Season 1
  • Season 1 · Episode 755:43

    Rustls with Dirkjan Ochtman

    Episode 7 – Rustls with Dirkjan Ochtman. In this episode, we go through Dirkjan's extensive experience in software development, particularly focusing on Rust, TLS, and QUIC protocols. We explore Dirkjan his journey…