Many years ago, at age 6 I began programming. Creating minecraft plugins and mods.

At age 10, while experimenting with Windows I corrupted my boot partition. This lead me to install my first Linux distro, Linux Mint. Over the years I hopped a few distros, landing on Arch linux.

In October of 2022, while using DOOM emacs. I stumbled across the creators NixOS dotfiles, I immediately began experimenting in a virtual machine. When preforming an update on Arch my installation broke. I figured it was a sign to ditch arch in favor of NixOS. I haven't looked back.

In early 2023 I began contributing to open source, just some basic typo fixes. My first serious work in open source began in July of that year, with my first nixpkgs pull request. Adding a builder function for zig packages. NixOS/nixpkgs#241741

At that time I joined the nix-community org and began maintaining the templates repo.

In January of 2024 I helped nix-community adopt a functional fork of Manix.

I maintain many packages in nixpkgs and help contribute to any projects I find useful.

When AI became mainstream, I worried that programmers would be replaced (and if the speed of improvements kept up, they probably would be). So I went to work physical labor jobs, and left open-source behind.

However, it has become apparent to me that it will never happen, even if AGI were to come about, because engineers will adapt, and so will I.

So in 2026 I started college, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.

I got a job in Tech, and am now returning to open source, and becoming a nixpkgs maintainer once again.