Rousan Ali

Occasional essays on engineering, products, and building software.

  • Why I still reach for Rust
    · 2 min read

    After years across JavaScript, Go, and Rust, here's where each one earns its place — and why Rust keeps winning the jobs that have to be correct.

  • Shipping like a founder, even as an engineer
    · 2 min read

    Thinking like a founder isn't about titles or equity. It's a way of deciding what to build and how finished 'done' really needs to be.

  • What I learned building Routerify
    · 2 min read

    A small router for hyper.rs grew into a library other people depend on. Here's what maintaining open-source Rust taught me about API design and saying no.