Fiona Behrens
Software Engineer at secunet Security Networks AG
Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolFiona Behrens is a software engineer with nine years of experience focused on systems, DevOps, and low-level tooling, currently contributing to secunet Security Networks AG. She has hands-on expertise in Rust-for-Linux and Nix ecosystems, contributing notable enhancements to the widely used Nix package manager such as a GitLab fetcher, self-hosted instance support, and aarch64-darwin installer builds. At nyantec she sharpened her software development skills across backend and infrastructure work, blending security-conscious engineering with reproducible build practices. A member of the German Chaos Computer Club, she brings a strong practical privacy and security perspective to open-source projects. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, she pairs formal computer science study at the University of Wuppertal with a track record of making cross-architecture tooling more accessible. Colleagues appreciate her knack for untangling build and deployment complexity while keeping systems robust and reproducible.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bergische Universität WuppertalArbitur, Arbitur at Landrat Lucas Gymnasium LeverkusenEvangelische realschule burscheid
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Github Skills (12)
gitlab10
c-language10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
github10
nix10
declarative9
lang9
functional-programming9
declarative-programming9
git8
devops8
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nix
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fiona's contributions centered on enhancing Nix's functionality and expanding its compatibility. This included developing a GitLab fetcher, enabling support for self-hosted GitLab/GitHub instances, and integrating aarch64-darwin builds for the installer. Additionally, the user modified the build process and installer scripts to incorporate architecture-specific configurations. Furthermore, the user adjusted the gitlab headers and added support for accessing private token.
functional-programmingnixosdeclarative-languagec-plus-pluspackage-manager
Rust-for-Linux/nix
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Efforts for packaging the Rust for Linux project with the Nix package manager
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 10 months
rustnixoslinuxpackage-managerpackaging
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