Jonathan Ringer
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Kent, Washington, United States
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Jonathan Ringer is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in Nix-driven developer experience, release engineering, and functional programming. He has led release management for multiple NixOS versions and maintains core nixpkgs Python packages, bringing rare operational depth around reproducible builds and package hygiene. His background spans full-stack and mobile development in both defense and commercial settings—from building mission-critical Air Force software and Kessel Run planning tools to Azure ML platform work at Microsoft and SRE roles for blockchain deployments. A Haskell enthusiast and co-founder of Project Ekala, he actively shapes Nix packaging ecosystems and CI for developer productivity. Practical, process-minded, and hands-on, he prefers elegant, test-driven solutions and has repeatedly introduced disciplined engineering practices like pair programming and TDD into teams. Based in Kent, WA, he’s happily employed but remains a prominent open-source maintainer and release manager in the Nix community.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Park UniversityAssociate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Community College of the Air ForceComputer Science, Computer Science at McKendree University
English
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
azure-machine-learning10
azure-cli10
protoc10
serverless10
cpp10
zpl10
irc-bot10
balloon10
onnx10
fossil10
api10
nix-darwin10
irc-bot-framework10
openweathermap10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
jonringer/nix-test-staging-next
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
jonringer/nix-template
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Make creating nix expressions easy
Contributions:9 releases, 8 reviews, 136 commits in 2 years 5 months
rustnix-expressionsnixoscargoexpressions
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