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I'm a software engineer working primarily in systems programming, language tooling, and the Nix ecosystem. I believe in free and open source software, permissionless systems, and the individual's right to privacy, not as political positions, but as practical ones. Software built in the open, owned by no single party, is software that anyone can trust, audit, and build on. That's the kind of software worth spending time on.

FOSS allows people of genuinely different backgrounds and beliefs to collaborate on shared infrastructure without having to agree on everything else. That's a rare property and worth protecting.

Sponsorship lets me spend fewer hours on contract work and more time contributing to that.

Open Source Work

My primary focus is the Nix ecosystem. Reproducible, declarative, and auditable by design, which makes it a natural fit for the kind of software I want to build. This includes work on a typed Nix compiler (NGI-funded) and maintenance of nix-community/fenix. I also support the broader nix-community through Matrix and other channels.

I work with Numtide on open source Nix tooling, for instance, system-manager, which brings declarative system configuration to non-NixOS Linux distributions.

Web3

There are probably many others I am forgetting, but here are just a few paid open source web3 contributions I made over the years:

  • At Fuel Labs, I built developer tooling for the Sway language: a context-tracking code formatter, a cargo doc-style documentation generator, language server improvements, and build system plugins.
  • At Golem / Arkiv Network, I contributed to a data-availability Layer 3 built on op-geth (Optimism), across protocol features, internal infrastructure, and SDKs.
  • I contributed to blutgang, a load balancer for Ethereum RPC endpoints.

Personal Life

My girlfriend has 16p11.2 duplication syndrome and I am her primary caregiver. The flexibility that comes with freelancing and open source work is what makes that sustainable, and even a small sponsorship makes a huge difference for us.

1 sponsor has funded eureka-cpu’s work.

@eureka-cpu

My aim is to have 10 sponsors contributing 20USD or more, monthly. This would amount to 200USD per month (2,400USD annually), which could justify more time spent on free software contributions.

@AlicanC

Featured work

  1. FuelLabs/sway

    🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.

    Rust 61,795
  2. numtide/system-manager

    Manage system config using nix on any distro

    Nix 1,493
  3. ipetkov/crane

    A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.

    Nix 1,333
  4. nix-community/fenix

    Rust toolchains and rust-analyzer nightly for Nix [maintainers=@figsoda, @winterqt, @eureka-cpu]

    Nix 1,022
  5. rainshowerLabs/blutgang

    the wd40 of ethereum load balancers

    Rust 363
  6. Rust

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