Hey, I'm Roland 👋

I'm a software developer with over 30 years of experience building things. These days I live on a sailboat with my family and 3 cats, cruising the Pacific and running everything on solar power. It's a pretty good setup.

What I'm Up To

I spend most of my time building and maintaining open-source projects over at Govcraft. It's just me—no team, no investors, no corporate backing. Just a guy on a boat writing code.

Some things I've built:

• acton-service - Production-grade Rust microservice framework
• acton-reactive - Actor-based reactive framework for Rust
• rust-docs-mcp-server - MCP server for querying Rust crate documentation

Background

I've been doing this for a while:

• AWS - Former Principal managing Rust programming language projects globally
• Microsoft - Former SOA Architect, helped launch Azure v1 back in 2009
• Rust - My main thing these days. I love it for building efficient, secure systems.
• ML - Been using it professionally since 2015

If you can Google it, I've probably installed it, run it, built it, or broken it at some point.

Support My Work

If you find any of my projects useful, consider sponsoring me. It helps keep the boat batteries charged and lets me spend more time on open source instead of consulting gigs.

Get in Touch

• Email: roland@govcraft.ai
• Bluesky: @govcraft.ai
• Govcraft: github.com/Govcraft

Always happy to chat about Rust, open source, boats, or whatever.