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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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Ashley Mensah
Developer Relations Engineer
Ashley Mensah is a Developer Relations engineer at NetBird, working on open source networking and developer experience. An avid homelabber, He runs his entire lab on NixOS and is passionate about applying declarative principles to real-world infrastructure problems, from mesh networking to reproducible systems and security.
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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.
I'm Brazilian and I live in New York, always happy to talk about both! -
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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Craig Jackson
DevOps Engineer at NetActuate
Craig Jackson is a DevOps Engineer at NetActuate, a global infrastructure and networking services provider. He's been a BSD/Linux Hobbyist since his teens, and was an orthopedic surgical sales consultant for 15 years. Craig's passions are development, operations, and supporting NetActuate's edge networking customers. He focuses on DevOps workflows and providing flexibility and efficiency for customer deployments.
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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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George Huebner
Quantum information theorist
George is an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying computer science and physics. He has used Nix for cross compiling to embedded systems in space, creating dev environments for CTFs, and making his install of macOS as indistinguishable from GNU/Linux as possible.
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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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James Bayer
Product Leader, Flox
James has spent his career working closely with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to build products customers love. Most recently, he led product at FluidCloud, and before that spent over five years at HashiCorp. His background also includes time at Pivotal Software.
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Julien Malka
Steering Committee
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Kelsey Hightower
Minimalist
Author, Speaker, Investor, and Open Source Contributor
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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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Michael Stahnke
VP of Engineering at Flox
Stahnke's leadership drives the engineering team behind tackling complexity in the modern distribution application world. This is rooted in insights gained from co-authoring the State of DevOps Reports, leading sizable engineering organizations, Operations experience, and years of Open Source contributions.
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Morgan Helton
Software Engineer @ Flox
Morgan Helton is a software engineer at Flox, working on cloud infrastructure and systems reliability. With prior experience in industrial controls and instrumentation and two decades of Linux and open-source use, Morgan blends practical engineering discipline with modern cloud-native practices.
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Morgan Jones
Embedded security engineer
I am an embedded security engineer for Viasat, member of the SoCal NixOS User Group, and one of the organizers of Nix Vegas. After mostly using my compilers classes in college for learning reverse engineering and finding remote code execution in mobile AR game anti-cheat systems, I now work on embedded security with Nix for a living, and may have read Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust one too many times.
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Philip Taron
Steering Committee
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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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Rok Garbas
Flox, Software Engineer
Rok builds developer tools at Flox and tries to make them understandable. With 20 years of Release Engineering behind him (Mozilla, Tweag, and others), he's learned one thing: if you can't explain it simply, you probably don't get it yourself. Active in the Nix community, he spends most of his time learning from people who know more than he does.
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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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Spencer Willett
Embedded Software Engineer
Just another engineer with a love for the STEM fields. Work experience at Qualcomm and TP-Link. Education background in physics and computer science.
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Stormy Peters
Head of Open Source Strategy & Marketing at AWS
Stormy helps organizations adopt collaborative technologies like open source and AI. She transforms how teams work together by leveraging two decades of leadership experience at GitHub, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Mozilla. Rather than simply explaining technology, she guides organizations through strategic and cultural changes that produce measurable results.
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Surma .
Principal Engineer
DX & Monorepo at Shopify.
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Tanisha Sharma
AI DevRel @SuprSend
Tanisha is an AI Developer Advocate specializing in production multi-agent systems. Also a private pilot. Both pursuits taught her the same lesson: know when to trust automation and when human judgment matters most.
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Tom Bereknyei
Steering Committee
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Tom Lubenow
Software Engineer at PDT Partners
Former embedded systems engineer in aerospace and automotive now doing HPC in quantitative finance.
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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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Wes Payne
Co-host of LINUX Unplugged
Seattlite, Podcaster, Software Developer, and Linux Enthusiast.
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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.
Where Nix Builders Come Together
March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA