NixCon 2024

Lightning talk block #1
2024-10-25 , Arena

Block for lightning talks with minimal break in between. Order will be determined shortly before it starts, and every speaker should be present at the beginning of the talk!


What level of experience in Nix is the talk addressed to?

Everyone

Bryan's been interested in computing for as long as he can remember. Even studying electronic engineering, just to understand how a computer could add 2 numbers together on a transistor level.

Recently, he's been interested in the smaller details of operating systems. How they work, why they look they way they do, and why LISP machines never took off.

Please don't hesitate to approach him about anything tech, or music, related. But, be warned, he has a tendency to just keep on talking once he gets going.

Bryan's currently working at Flox, where he uses Nix daily, and is trying to bring Nix to a wider audience in a nicer package.

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Arnout 'raboof' Engelen is an independent Open Source software engineer and has been a nixpkgs committer since 2021, notably spearheading the Reproducible Builds effort within NixOS. Available for freelance Open Source software development engagements aside acting as Security Response Program Manager for the Apache Software Foundation.

Hi, I'm Nitin! I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer on the research platform at Two Sigma. Before that, I was at Cruise Automation working on AI planning for the self-driving car.

I love using NixOS to tinker and self-host software. I also host the New York Nix Users Group!

I am passionate about advocating for Nix and Nix-based technology. I think Nix is a superpower that should be available to all developers and something that can help the humanity manage the increasing complexity of software. Let's bring it to work, home lab, school, basement, cloud, enterprise, space station, hardware, ...... to the world!

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I work on helping teams across Juspay adopt Nix, building cool tools for both internal use and the open-source community. As a Nix aficionado, I love installing NixOS wherever I can.

Curious human interested in learning and helping.