Ana Hobden
Ferrocene Technical Lead at Hoverbear Consulting
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAna Hobden is a Victoria, BC–based software engineer and systems hacker with a B.Sc. in Computer Science (with distinction) and roughly 10 years of experience across Rust and Nix ecosystems. As Ferrocene Technical Lead at Ferrous Systems and owner of Hoverbear Consulting she blends hands‑on backend development, DevOps, and build/release automation with technical leadership. Her open-source work spans rust-lang (build/test infra and riscv64 codegen fixes), TiKV and client-rust, pgx, Vector, and the Determinate Nix Installer — the latter powering millions of installs — reflecting deep experience in distributed databases, packaging, and reproducible builds. She focuses on declarative systems, distributed consensus, NVMeoF/rDMA and database internals while improving cross-platform builds, aarch64 support, and Nix flakes. Committed to Open Source sustainability and community impact, she actively mentors and engages with Indigenous and underrepresented communities and runs STEAM outreach programs — and occasionally walks a golden retriever named Nami.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, With distinction. (top 15% of class), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, With distinction. (top 15% of class) at University of Victoria
German, English
Github Skills (50)
kubernetes10
filesystem10
container10
docker10
key-value-store10
postgresql10
nix10
clientside10
key-value10
testing10
configuration-management10
storage10
linux10
build-system10
dockers10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:381 reviews, 329 commits, 600 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ana expanded the codebase for the Determinate Nix Installer, adding functionality for managing system users and groups. They implemented features for creating and managing build users with specific IDs and group memberships. The user's work also involved setting up and configuring directory structures and environment variables, indicating a focus on system configuration and deployment aspects of the project.
pre-releaseinstallernixosprototypeunstable
pgcentralfoundation/pgrx
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Build Postgres Extensions with Rust!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 229 reviews, 363 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ana primarily contributed to the `cargo-pgx` tool, focused on building PostgreSQL extensions with Rust. Their work involved fixing bugs related to version fetching and schema generation. They implemented features such as adding aarch64 support and integrating a Nix flake, improving the build process. Moreover, the user's contributions included dependency updates and code formatting.
postgresql-databasepostgresql-extensionrustrustlangextensions
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