Speakers
Adis Bladis
Adisbladis is a Nix consultant & nixpkgs committer, where he mostly enjoys working on lower level plumbing such as lib & stdenv, but also maintains Emacs & it's package ecosystem. Python developer in a previous life. He is the author of previous Python packaging efforts like poetry2nix.
Sessions
- Charming wild snakes with pyproject.nix & uv2nix
Aneesh Agrawal
Software engineer with a passion for Developer Experience, currently at Anthropic. Proud Nix user since college, now using it at work!
Sessions
- Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
Connor Baker
Nix Engineer and Nix CUDA Maintainer. Interested in formal methods, Haskell, Lean, type & category theory, and computational photography!
Sessions
- Evaluating the Nix Evaluator: Why Nix Performance Sometimes... Doesn't
Daniel Baker
Daniel is engineer and mathematician turned software developer. He found a new passion in reproducible build systems and started contributing to the Nix community.
Sessions
- Introduction to the Module System
Eelco Dolstra
Eelco started the Nix project when he was a PhD student at Utrecht University. He is a co-founder at Determinate Systems.
Sessions
- Configurable Flakes
Farid Zakaria
I am a software engineer, father, and wishful surfer. I currently work at Confluent and am also pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California Santa Cruz. More relevant to Nix, I am a NixOS enthusiast, which has led me to rethink basic Linux primitives.
Sessions
- Learn Nix the Fun Way
Jacek Galowicz
Long-time Nix user, maintainer of the NixOS integration test driver, C++ book author
Sessions
- Mastering NixOS Integration Tests: Advanced Techniques for Fast and Robust Multi-VM Tests
John Ericson
I've been working the ingredients leading to this moment for years, and so it is very exciting to finally see a first end-to-end demonstration of all the pieces working together! Nix Steering Committee member since 2024 Nix Team member since 2023 Software Engineer at Obsidian Systems since 2017 Nix user since 2014
Sessions
- Sandstone: Fast incremental Haskell builds using dynamic derivations
Kelsey Hightower
Minimalist
Sessions
- Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower & Ron Efroni: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
Kenji Berthold
NixOS contributor and hacker
Sessions
- generating secrets with nixos, the missing puzzle piece
Lassulus N/A
I discovered NixOS while looking for fleet management systems 10 years ago and contribute since then
Sessions
- generating secrets with nixos, the missing puzzle piece
Matteo Fusi
I work at Arm as a Software Engineer in Austin, TX. I have started working with Nix while searching for the holy grail of reproducible environments.
Sessions
- Python on Nix? Yes, it is possible!
Michael Stahnke
Michael is VP of Eng at Flox after time at CircleCI and Puppet. . Michael is obsessed with the intersection of the business and engineering with ROI as a key driver behind efficiencies and automation. Michael has been a speaker events since 2007. In 2005, he authored the book Pro OpenSSH. He founded the package repository Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and contributes to several open source projects.
Sessions
- Flox as a Guided Path for Nix
Mike Kelly
Mike Kelly is the CTO, Developer and Co-Founder of a SaaS company called MemberVault. He is not only a big Linux fan for personal uses, but uses Linux exclusively to develop and host the platform. Mike is based in Olympia, WA where him and his wife run MemberVault, while raising 3 kids and a golden doodle.
Sessions
- Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Morgan Jones
Hobbyist programmer who became an embedded and mobile security engineer for Viasat, and later a member of SNUG. Works on mobile devices for a day job, and may have read Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust one too many times.
Sessions
- Adventures in Mesh Networking at DEF CON with NixOS
Nick Johnstone
I'm a software developer from New Zealand, with over a decade of experience. I have a particular affection for functional programming, and have been an avid Nix user since 2017. In my spare time I enjoy photography, baking, video games and music.
Sessions
- How to make Nix five times faster
Rickard Nilsson
Rickard Nilsson has worked as a freelancing Nix/NixOS expert for over a decade. Five years ago he founded nixbuild.net, which is an advanced scalable build cluster for Nix offered both as a cloud service and for enterprise deployment.
Sessions
- Remote Nix Builds
Ron Efroni Rotman
Ron is CEO and co-founder of Flox and President of the NixOS Foundation. A former software engineer and leader in large-scale product development, Ron led developer products at Meta, supporting 20,000+ engineers. 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.
Sessions
- Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower & Ron Efroni: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
- A Sustainable Nix, State of the Union
Ross Turk
Ross Turk is head of stories, words and pictures at Flox. He has been living in the murky boundary between open source communities and for-profit companies for nearly 30 years as an engineer, community manager, and marketing exec.
Sessions
- Nix in the Wild
Thomas Bereknyei
Director of Labs at Flox. Have used Nix in small teams, and large organizations, from academic research to war zones, to managing hardware and to train artificial intelligence. Started his career at Google, then the United States Marine Corps, the Defense Digital Service, and at Rebellion. Currently developing an easier on-ramp to the ecosystem at Flox. Reach out if you are interested in contributing to Nixpkgs or Nix itself or if you are considering large-scale adoption.
Sessions
- Using /opt/store
Tim Golden
Tim has over 10 years of experience in quality assurance across environmental and heavy-industrial domains, including critical infrastructure testing. This background drives his passion for software systems and technologies like Nix and Linux. Pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, specializing in Computing Systems, Tim brings a cross-disciplinary approach to problem-solving. An OSS contributor, he also serves on a Mountain Search and Rescue team and enjoys all mountain recreation.
Sessions
- Building Linux from Scratch... from Nix
Tristan Ross
Low level programmer, OS/Zig/Linux dev, Nixpkgs & LLVM committer. Likes to watch 大空スバル (Subaru Oozora).
Sessions
- The Nix PR Pipeline
Victor Fuentes
Currently I'm a platform engineer at Replit. I've been using Nix since 2021. In my free time, enjoy working on tooling to make NixOS easier to use.
Sessions
- Tvix store in production
Yannik Sander
Nix user and contributed for 5+ years, who brought flake support to search.nixos.org and mentored at summer of nix. Now bringing nix to work at Flox.
Sessions
- Nix is faster than no evaluation