Speaking
I speak at conferences about Nix, NixOS, reproducible builds, and DevOps practices. Here’s a selection of my talks with video recordings.
Recent Talks
Getting Started with Nix: Common Mistakes and How to Dodge Them
NixCon 2025 · Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
A workshop for Nix newcomers covering installation, CLI usage, and the basics of the Nix language - plus the common pitfalls to avoid.
The Environments Inside Your Containers
CfgMgmtCamp 2025 · Ghent, Belgium
Critiquing traditional Dockerfile approaches and demonstrating how Flox improves the entire SDLC with more secure and efficient container images.
The Environments Inside Your Containers
DevDays Vilnius 2025 · Vilnius, Lithuania
How Flox brings reproducible development environments inside your containers, making builds predictable and deployments reliable.
Empowering Teams in a Post-Agile World: Leadership Redefined
DevDays Vilnius 2025 · Vilnius, Lithuania
Panel discussion on modern leadership approaches and team empowerment beyond traditional agile methodologies.
A Quick Introduction to Nix
PlanetNix 2024 · Pasadena, USA
A workshop for Nix newcomers covering installation, CLI usage, and the fundamentals of the Nix language. Co-presented with Tom Bereknyei.
How to teach Nix in 5 minutes!
NixCon 2023 · Darmstadt, Germany
A lightning talk on making Nix accessible to newcomers. What are the essential concepts you need to convey in just 5 minutes?
From Nix to Docker - Polyglot Package Management
Devoxx Poland 2023 · Krakow, Poland
Why is Docker not enough? How Nix complements Docker for truly reproducible builds across any language ecosystem.
Building Minimal, Flexible, and Reproducible Images
DevOpsDays Warsaw 2023 · Warsaw, Poland
In modern engineering organizations, the container image has become a core artifact. This talk covers how to build images that are minimal, flexible, and reproducible.
The NixOS hype and where to go from here
Nix Developer Dialogues 2023 · Online
A retrospective on NixOS adoption, the challenges ahead, and where the community should focus next.
Earlier Nix & NixOS Talks
How to make Nix ./pleasing to use at work
NixCon 2018 · London, UK
At Release Engineering within Mozilla, we develop and support Firefox. This talk covers how we introduced Nix to improve developer experience and build reproducibility.
NixOS - Reproducible Linux Distribution built around systemd
SystemD Conference 2016 · Berlin, Germany
An introduction to NixOS for the systemd community, explaining how NixOS achieves reproducibility and declarative system configuration.
Make Nix friendlier for Beginners
NixCon 2015 · Berlin, Germany
One of my earliest Nix talks, focused on improving the onboarding experience for new Nix users.
Package management rethought - Nix
BOB 2015 · Berlin, Germany
Allow me to introduce you to Nix - The Purely Functional Package Manager. A deep dive into why Nix takes a different approach to package management.
Rethinking Package Management
Python Ireland · Dublin, Ireland
Bringing Nix concepts to the Python community - how reproducibility can solve “works on my machine” problems.
Plone Era
Before Nix, I was active in the Plone CMS community.
Deco, Finally!
Plone Conference 2012 · Arnhem, Netherlands
The history and implementation of Deco, a new layout system for Plone.
Want me to speak at your event?
I’m available for conference talks, meetups, and workshops on:
- Nix & NixOS - From beginner introductions to advanced topics
- Reproducible builds - Why they matter and how to achieve them
- DevOps practices - CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code
- Flox - Modern developer environments