Connor Baker
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolConnor Baker is a NixOS software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently maintaining the Nixpkgs CUDA ecosystem at Anduril Industries. He specializes in integrating CUDA into Nix/NixOS, and his work underpins many users’ GPU workflows in the Nix community. Previously a Nix engineer and data engineer at Modus Create and Tweag, he brings production experience across data pipelines, embedded/cyber projects, and software engineering at Raytheon. Connor pairs practical engineering with deep academic interests—formal methods, Haskell, Lean, and category theory—which inform his careful, correctness-minded approach to package and systems maintenance. Based in Costa Mesa, CA, he also has a background tutoring advanced mathematics, reflecting strong foundations in both theory and applied engineering.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Associates of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (200)
hunit10
multithreading10
testing10
linter10
cuda-toolkit10
computer-vision10
nvidia-jetson10
nixpkgs10
unit-testing10
opencv10
nix10
python10
bash10
gpu-acceleration10
haskell10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ConnorBaker/tasty-json-to-markdown-action
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
GitHub action which takes JSON output by tasty-json and produces a markdown table with the results of the tests
Contributions:9 releases, 17 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
markdown
ConnorBaker/nixos-configs
Jun 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:361 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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