Production Unsafe Rust - Muskan Paliwal | EuroRust 2025

Production Unsafe Rust: Patterns for Zero-Copy Performance - Muskan Paliwal at EuroRust 2025 🦀

Picture this: your beautifully crafted, idiomatic Rust service is processing 50MB/s when the business needs 5GB/s. Your network parser allocates on every packet when microseconds matter. Your SIMD experiments somehow made things slower. Welcome to the performance wall that separates hobby projects from production systems.

This is where unsafe Rust transforms from “dangerous territory to avoid” into “the tool that saves your career.

About Muskan Paliwal

Muskan was a founding engineer at Vibinex with 3+ years of production Rust experience, specializing in performance-critical Git analysis systems. Working in a lean 3-person startup, she gained deep hands-on experience building data processing systems that handle complex repository analysis at scale. her Rust journey began out of necessity. When Python couldn't deliver the performance our enterprise clients demanded, her team dove deep into Rust to build their core Data Processing Unit. At Vibinex, they designed privacy-first architectures requiring zero-copy processing and custom memory layouts that directly contributed to closing enterprise deals. Her expertise also spans Next.js, TypeScript, React, and Python.

She is currently on a break and actively contributing to Gumroad's codebase. She lives in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, exploring different cultures, theatre, ultimate frisbee, singing, music, badminton, and taking care of stray cats and dogs.

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