In our inaugural episode, we talk to Luca Palmieri who built Rust machine learning libraries including ndarray-stats and linfa. For his day job, he works on TrueLayer's PayDirect product, which is built top-to-bottom in Rust. Luca's current side project is writing Zero to Production, a guide on Rust backend development. You can find Luca on Twitter @algo_luca. A transcript for this episode is available at https://github.com/seanchen1991/building-with-rust/blob/main/transcripts/001.md. Send us an email at [email protected] to suggest cool people or projects in the Rust ecosystem you'd like to hear us chat with!