NixCon 2020: Online Edition

Aden is the CTO of Yakkertech, and is a software developer, engineer, and physicist by training.
He has been using Linux since 1994, and Nix for the past 2 years.
He is passionate about math, computers, functional programming, and open source software.

Hacking on Nixpkgs, Nix, NixOS and the surrounding ecosystem for years. Helping people figure out how Nix works. Supporting Serokell build infrastructure.

Daniel Fullmer is a recent EE PhD graduate from Yale University, where he focused on distributed computation and control. Before this he was a software developer and SRE at various companies. He has been a Nix/NixOS user since 2015, and has been interested in declaratively specifying more aspects of his life using Nix.

My mission is to bring Nix to en masse.

I've started using Nix in 2012 and after years of many contributions in free time, started using Nix exclusively in 2016 packaging up OpenStack and functional testing a cluster with scenarios.

In 2016 I've founded Enlambda consulting which helped many clients like Snabb and IOHK to adopt Nix as a way to solve interesting complex software distribution problems in our industry.

Eelco Dolstra is a Senior Software Engineer at Tweag I/O. He obtained
a PhD in Computer Science from Utrecht University in 2006 and was a
postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University and Delft University of
Technology. From 2012 to 2018 he was a Software Engineer at LogicBlox
(acquired by Infor in 2016). As part of his PhD research project at
Utrecht University, he developed Nix, the purely functional package
manager. Together with Armijn Hemel, he started the NixOS Linux
distribution in 2006. He joined Tweag I/O in 2018. He also serves as
President of the NixOS Foundation.

I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer.
I have over a decade of experience writing software and am currently employed by Google.
My prior experience has largely centered around building public cloud infrastructure for AWS & Oracle.
I am deeply passionate about reproducibility, developer tooling & ergonomics.

https://fzakaria.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fmzakari/

Gabriel is a passionate Haskeller-Scalaer-Nixer-Vimmer software engineer. Highly active open-source contributor. Author of Practical FP in Scala. Currently working at Chatroulette.

github.com/Ericson2314/

I am a student at EPITA, a computer engineering school in Paris, with a specialty in systems administration. I currently am part of the school's IT department, managing an infrastructure of 800 machines for 4000 students.

One of the people who stopped using mainline NixOS but still uses Nix (and Nixpkgs kernels) after more than ten years.

Nick (he/him) is a human software engineer who enjoys systems, lists, architecture, trampolines, and jumping. Not necessarily in that order.

Founder of Hercules CI, the CI/CD service for Nix-based projects.
He's the author of Arion, a docker-compose wrapper for Nixified local development, gitignore.nix and every now and then he's involved with the NixOS module system, pre-commit-hooks.nix and dockerTools.

@robert_hensing on Twitter

roberth on GitHub and IRC

Doctoral researcher at the University of Iceland working on problems at the intersection of quantum chemistry and machine learning. Nix fanatic, FOSS developer. Co-lead of the nix-first d-SEAMS software suite.

Senior Software Engineer at Tweag I/O

FOSS developer for more than five years, (eternal?) student in mathematics and computer science, interested into formal methods applied to computer security, networks and more.

I enjoy playing around with infrastructure and run my own micro-datacenter in order to understand how can we develop an (economic viable?) model of an NixOS-only and IPv6-only datacenter as much as possible.

And then, someday, I will write a formal proof that the Nix core is sound. But that will be for another day.

Ryan Mulligan is the creator of nixpkgs-update/r-ryantm, a project responsible for over 10 thousand merged pull requests to Nixpkgs in the last year. He lives in Las Vegas.

I'm a Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS contributor since 2007 who has worked on many things, such as FHS chroot environments, Nix android build environment. I'm also the main developer for various Nix-related utilities: Disnix, Dysnomia, node2nix, composer2nix.

After a PhD in computer science , I worked as a freelance fullstack developer for some time. I recently joined Tweag where I got the chance to dive into the awesome world of Nix. In life, I love all aspects of food, climbing, and enjoying nature in general.

I am a Linux enthusiast that became enamored by the control I got from NixOS.