Karim Vergnes
Package Maintainer at NixOS
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolKarim Vergnes is a package maintainer and software engineer with a decade of experience focused on building dependable, reproducible development and deployment foundations. He contributes to Nixpkgs, one of the largest open-source package collections that powers reproducible environments across Linux and macOS, and brings that tooling-first mindset to both legacy modernization and greenfield projects. Comfortable across system-level packaging, web apps and VR research projects, he balances deep technical work with team enablement to reduce bottlenecks and prevent technical debt. Educated in computer science and autonomous systems at Université de Bordeaux with roots at EPITECH, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering. Based in Bordeaux, France, Karim describes himself playfully as “raised by CD‑ROMs,” hinting at a long-standing curiosity about computing’s evolution. He aims to leave teams with stable, scalable foundations so they can focus on product innovation.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
EpitechComputer Science Masters, Autonomous Systems, Perception, Interaction and Control, Computer Science Masters, Autonomous Systems, Perception, Interaction and Control at Université de Bordeaux
English, Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
proton10
proxy10
ubuntu10
cpp10
edtech10
init10
file-sharing10
api10
vagrant10
diaspora10
openid-connect10
dock10
terminfo10
nixpkgs10
community-management10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
Thesola10/blog.thesola.io
Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 7 months
my-blog
Thesola10/nixpkgs
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:49 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
nixosnix-packages
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