Cole Mickens
Senior Software Engineer at Determinate Systems, Inc.
Antarctica
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Top SchoolCole Mickens is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading development of a minimal Nix-based Linux distribution at Determinate Systems. He has a strong background in Kubernetes and Linux on major cloud platforms, having driven upstream Kubernetes features at CoreOS and added Kubernetes support across Azure at Microsoft. Comfortable in systems languages like Rust and with production-grade CI and upgrade systems, he focuses on reliable, automatable infrastructure—summed up on GitHub as “the singularity, through automation.” Based in Antarctica, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by large-scale platform work and open-source collaboration. His career shows a recurring theme of simplifying complex platform plumbing for broader adoption, from store ingestion pipelines to cloud provider integrations.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Business, BS in Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Business at University of Nebraska-LincolnGraduate General Studies, Graduate General Studies at Shawnee Heights
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Github Skills (19)
firefox-nightly10
nixos10
flake10
nix-flake10
nixpkgs10
firefox10
updating10
nightly10
nix-config10
mozilla10
wayland10
nix8
azure-container-service6
azure6
docker6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/nixpkgs-wayland
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin]
Contributions:4552 commits, 1864 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
swaywaylandnixostiling-window-managermaintainers
nix-community/flake-firefox-nightly
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
this provides an auto-updating flake for firefox-nightly-bin from nixpkgs-mozilla [maintainer=@colemickens, @Artturin]
Contributions:5418 commits, 617 pushes in 2 years 7 months
firefoxbinnightlyflakenixos
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