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 (15)
nixos-configuration10
nix-config10
nix-flake10
nixos10
nixpkgs10
wayland10
nix10
firefox-nightly10
kubernetes6
azure-container-service6
docker6
azure6
bash6
azure-storage6
azure-cli6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
colemickens/home-manager
Oct 2023 - Nov 2025
Manage a user environment using Nix
Contributions:22676 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
nixos
colemickens/nixcfg
May 2021 - Sep 2021
NixOS and Home-Manager configs for my devices. dotfiles, but way better
Contributions:11 commits, 128495 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
nixosnixnix-flakedotfilesnixos-mobile
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