Trifecta Tech Foundation welcomes Google as Gold Sponsor
Trifecta Tech Foundation is delighted to welcome Google as a new Gold sponsor! We're grateful for their €40,000/year sponsorship, a significant contribution to the flexible funding needed to sustain the maintenance work that keeps our critical infrastructure projects secure.
This support is co-funded by Google's Safe Coding Engineering team and the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO).
The Safe Coding team focuses on replacing ubiquitous C/C++ libraries with memory-safe Rust alternatives at scale, while OSPO stewards Google’s long-term investments in foundational open-source ecosystems. Together, this joint commitment elevates Google to a Gold Sponsor, reinforcing the shared mission to make critical digital infrastructure inherently safer and more resilient.
Trifecta Tech Foundation's approach to rewrite critical C dependencies, such as zlib, into Rust (with amazing performance gains!) is an important part of a comprehensive landscape of solutions for eliminating memory safety risks across key open-source software.
Bastian Kersting, Software Engineer in Google's Memory Safety team
Google has long advocated for a Safe Coding strategy and in particular, memory safety. Bastian Kersting's excellent RustWeek 2026 talk outlines this effort. The next step of evaluating the feasibility of AI-assisted rewrites is highlighted in the new blog post, Scaling Memory Safety.
Google's support
Trifecta Tech Foundation depends on sponsorship and donations. Maintenance of critical infrastructure software is notoriously difficult to fund, yet it's essential work. Our Gold and Silver sponsors provide flexible, undirected support that makes this possible, enabling us to guarantee the long-term security and reliability of our projects.
About Trifecta Tech Foundation
Trifecta Tech Foundation is a non-profit and a Public Benefit Organization (501(c)(3) equivalent) that creates open-source building blocks for critical infrastructure software, in the initiatives Data compression, Time synchronization, and Privilege boundary.
If you would also like to support our work, please contact us; see trifectatech.org/support.