--- title: Update on Rust Foundation Staffing | daily.dev description: The Rust Foundation is going through structural changes. It will soon open recruitment for a new Director of Technical Services to oversee its internal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/update-on-rust-foundation-staffing-f9pgw0qg2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Update on Rust Foundation Staffing | daily.dev og:description: The Rust Foundation is going through structural changes. It will soon open recruitment for a new Director of Technical Services to oversee its internal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/update-on-rust-foundation-staffing-f9pgw0qg2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/F9Pgw0qG2.png og:image:alt: Update on Rust Foundation Staffing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Update on Rust Foundation Staffing **[Rust Foundation](https://daily.dev/sources/rustfoundation)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Rust Foundation is going through structural changes. It will soon open recruitment for a new Director of Technical Services to oversee its internal engineering team and develop wider strategic investments in the Rust ecosystem. In the interim, David Wood, Project Director and co-lead of Rust's Compiler Team and Principal Engineer at Arm, is stepping in to support the Foundation's technical activities. The Foundation also merged its Outreach and Communications and Marketing teams into a single External Relations team, led by Director of External Relations Lori Lorusso. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Who is currently leading the Rust Foundation's technical team? David Wood, Project Director and co-lead of Rust's Compiler Team and a Principal Engineer at Arm, is serving as Interim Director of Technology at the Rust Foundation. He stepped in to support the engineering team while the Foundation recruits a permanent Director of Technical Services to oversee internal engineering and strategic investments in the Rust ecosystem. _Rust contributors tracking foundation leadership changes can follow ecosystem updates on daily.dev._ ### Did the Rust Foundation reorganize its marketing and outreach teams? Yes, the Rust Foundation merged its Outreach team with its Communications and Marketing team into a single External Relations team. The combined team handles events, marketing, communications, outreach and content, and is led by Director of External Relations Lori Lorusso, aiming for one coherent voice across external engagements. _Anyone following Rust community and ecosystem strategy can keep up with these shifts on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Rust Foundation with Rebecca Rumbul, Lori Lorusso, and David Wood - Rust in Production Podcast](https://daily.dev/posts/the-rust-foundation-with-rebecca-rumbul-lori-lorusso-and-david-wood---rust-in-production-podcast-bx7yqeyjk) · corrode · 7 upvotes · 0 comments - [Electing new Project Directors 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/electing-new-project-directors-2026-2ydtdwroh) · Inside Rust Blog · 10 upvotes · 0 comments - [Project Director Update — April & May 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/project-director-update-april-may-2026-0nnk0bngy) · Rust Foundation · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [March 2026 Project Director Update](https://daily.dev/posts/march-2026-project-director-update-cthfnmvb0) · Inside Rust Blog · 15 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/update-on-rust-foundation-staffing-f9pgw0qg2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Update on Rust Foundation Staffing","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/update-on-rust-foundation-staffing-f9pgw0qg2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/update-on-rust-foundation-staffing-f9pgw0qg2"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T19:30:54.341Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T19:38:56.990Z","description":"The Rust Foundation is going through structural changes. 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