Zach is an Engineer at flox and a member of the Nix Documentation Team.

In a previous life Zach built lasers and performed quantum mechanics simulations, but now he builds software with Rust and Nix. Zach has always had a knack for teaching, receiving multiple teaching awards during his PhD. This knack stems from an empathy for the struggles of new users of any technology. Enabling engineers and tinkerers alike to get things done or scratch their own itch has always been a joy for Zach.

Zach has spoken at multiple conferences and meetups, including NixCon 2023 and RustConf 2023. He also organizes the Boulder Rust Meetup.

Presentations

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Layering Up: Composable environments with flox

Sebastian has just entered the cold, cut-throat world of early stage startups, and you know what you do when you're cold? You layer up. In this talk we'll follow Sebastian as he's thrown from project to project at FurFinder, an AI-powered social media app for cats. As Sebastian works on different projects we'll see how he's able to instantly use development environments provided by different teams and layer them on top of each other like cozy software sweaters.

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