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Alex Kretzschmar
Co-Host of Self-Hosted / Head of DevRel at Tailscale
Alex Kretzschmar (@ironicbadger) is an avid open source evangelist. He is co-host of the [Self-Hosted](https://selfhosted.show) podcast, co-founder of linuxserver.io, and author of perfectmediaserver.com. He is Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale. He has previously written about subscription-free home automation and open-source Google photos alternatives for Ars Technica. For more information check out his [blog](https://blog.ktz.me/about/).
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Artemis Tosini
Software Engineer, Obsidian Systems
Artemis Tosini has been an avid user of nix since 2018. She is a nixpkgs committer who loves working with the internals of every system she comes across.
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Audrey Dutcher
Hacker Gal Extrordinaire
Audrey is a PhD student at Arizona State University and a founder at Emotion Labs LLC. She is excited to announce that 2026 will be the year of the FreeBSD desktop.
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Bernardo Meurer Costa
Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic
I'm currently working on Nix at Anthropic and have been a Nix contributor since ca. 2017. Before, I worked on Rust builds at AWS, and on random things at Google Quantum AI.
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Burke Libbey
Principal Engineer, Shopify
Burke has been working on developer tools for most of his 14 years at Shopify, and has been the driving force of three and a half out of five generations of developer tooling at the company, if you don't count the markdown file that he was handed when he joined.
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Eelco Dolstra
Determinate Systems
Eelco started the Nix project when he was a PhD student at Utrecht University. He is a co-founder at Determinate Systems.
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Graham Bennett
n/a
I've been using Nix and NixOS since 2017 for both work and hobby projects.
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Jacek Galowicz
Nixcademy Founder
Long-time Nix user, maintainer of the NixOS integration test driver, C++ book author. I like static type systems for modeling robust software.
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Joerg Thalheim
@Mic92
Jörg Thalheim (Mic92) is a long-time NixOS contributor and maintainer of several widely-used projects in the Nix ecosystem, including sops-nix (secret provisioning), nix-direnv, nix-ld, disko
(declarative disk partitioning), nixos-anywhere, nixpkgs-review, nix-update, and nix-fast-build. He works on making Nix more accessible and practical for real-world infrastructure. -
Leonard Sheng Sheng Lee
Platform Pipeline Plumber
Leonard coached various companies on automating builds and plumbing deployment pipelines. All things configuration as code and cloud infrastructure are his main interests these days. He originally hails from Kuching, Malaysia, and currently lives in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway. He claims that he enjoys the picturesque nature and unpredictable weather, and try to prove it by kayaking in the fjords. Furthermore, he loves to immerse himself with diving in the tropics.
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Priya Ananthasankar
Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Priya Ananthasankar is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in software infrastructure and distributed systems. With experience designing and scaling backend platforms, she has led large-scale migrations across cloud environments. Her work focuses on building resilient, observable, and scalable systems. She is passionate about sharing practical methodologies bridging theory and real-world application in infrastructure evolution, service reliability, and cloud-native architecture.
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Ron Efroni Rotman
CEO/Co-Founder at flox and Board Member/Treasurer at the NixOS Foundation
Ron is the CEO and co-founder at Flox and a NixOS Foundation board member bringing Nix to the world.
Ron’s journey began as a software engineer. A repeat founder, Ron worked on developer tooling at Meta as the head of developer products, building tools powering Meta’s 20,000-strong developer core. Realizing the limitations of existing tooling and recognizing the superpowers of Nix, Ron co-founded Flox to grow Nix and make it accessible to the wider engineering community. -
Sam Fu
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Sam is a software engineer with a passion for developer experience, focusing on building intuitive, delightful development environments. He currently works at Anthropic.
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Shahar "Dawn" Or
Author of the Full Time Nix podcast and The Molybdenum Software Show
Author of the Full Time Nix podcast and The Molybdenum Software Show
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Surma .
Principal Engineer
DX & Monorepo at Shopify.
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Tristan Ross
SWE @ Determinate Systems
Low level programmer, OS/Zig/Linux dev, Nixpkgs committer (LLVM). Likes to watch 大空スバル (Subaru Oozora).
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Yuning Liang
Founder and CEO of DeepComputing
Yuning has a strong background in embedded systems, platform APIs, and AI. He founded Xcalibyte, DeepComputing, and Synergic, and invested in BravoMonster RC Cars. In 2024, he received the "RISC-V Community Contributor Award" and was recognized as an "Ubuntu Summit Contributor." A FOSDEM 2025 RISC-V Track Keynote Speaker and Ubuntu Summit 2024 RISC-V Invited Speaker, Yuning advocates open source and RISC-V technologies and believes in cross-cultural collaboration and problem-solving.
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