Martin Ombura Jr.

Senior Backend Software Engineer @ GoDaddy

Martin Ombura Jr. is a Senior Backend Software Engineer who has worked with Rust since 2019, with a focus on building reliable systems. At GoDaddy, he contributed to the initial adoption of Rust in the backend stack. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, where he researched Coevolved Genetic Algorithms. He continues to explore Rust’s use in performance-critical and systems-level applications.

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Solving NP - Hard Problems using Genetic Algorithms in Rust
November 04 2025 - 11:30 (45 min )

Many real-world problems like scheduling, routing, and resource allocation are too complex for deterministic or greedy algorithms to solve effectively. When the solution space is chaotic, non-differentiable, or constrained by real-world uncertainty, we need smarter search strategies. That’s where Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) come in.

This talk demonstrates how Genetic Algorithms (GAs), a powerful subset of EAs, can be paired with Rust’s core strengths—performance, ownership, and traits—to build fast, modular, and parallelizable solutions. I’ll show how Rust’s type system and concurrency model make it uniquely suited to implementing evolutionary approaches that are robust, scalable, and often more flexible than traditional methods.

LEVEL: Intermediate

Solving NP - Hard Problems using Genetic Algorithms in Rust

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