Amine Chikhaoui
Senior Software Engineer, Application Platform
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmine Chikhaoui is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in development infrastructure with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated platforms for security-sensitive and multi-cloud environments. Based in Atlanta, he has delivered large-scale migrations to Terraform, rebuilt provisioning and orchestration services in Go to shrink bare-metal provisioning from hours to minutes, and hardened container supply chains for FedRAMP/FIPS compliance. A proven maintainer of Nix-based build and deployment tooling, he has contributed performance and reliability fixes to the prominent Nix package manager—optimizing parallel store queries, compression, and large-object uploads. Comfortable from on-call production rescue to designing reproducible infrastructure, he blends systems-level engineering with pragmatic automation and a strong focus on observability and security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Physics at IPEIT - Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes d'Ingénieurs de TunisBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at ENSI - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique
Arabic, English, French
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Github Skills (24)
c-language10
nix10
multithreading10
parallel-processing10
compression10
functional-programming10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
declarative9
lang9
declarative-programming9
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
aws-s38
devops7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nix
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 55 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amine primarily contributed to improving the performance and reliability of the Nix package manager. Their work focused on parallelizing store path queries using a thread pool and enhancing the multi-threaded xz encoder for compression, particularly for binary cache operations. The user also implemented fixes for handling SIGINT signals during path queries and configured multi-part uploads for large NARs exceeding 5GB, showcasing a focus on efficiency and robustness. Furthermore, the user added disk cache TTL configurations.
functional-programmingnixosdeclarative-languagec-plus-pluspackage-manager
nix-community/nixops-datadog
Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
NixOps Datadog backend
Contributions:63 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
backendnixopsdatadog
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