Kim Lindberger
IT Specialist at XLN Audio
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarKim Lindberger is an experienced IT Specialist based in Stockholm with a decade of hands-on engineering focused on reliable build systems, package management, and NixOS tooling. At XLN Audio they blend operations-minded IT work with deep open-source contributions—most notably maintaining and improving Conan recipes in the widely used conan-center-index and authoring robust Nix modules for persistent state. Kim excels at cross-compilation fixes, architecture support, and translating Emacs Lisp configurations into reproducible Nix builds, showing both systems-level insight and careful parsing/automation skills. Colleagues would describe them as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers durable, well-tested solutions and quietly improves developer workflows behind the scenes.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
cpp-library10
c-language10
package-management10
nix10
dependency-analysis10
conan10
nixos10
emacs-lisp10
cprogramming-language10
build-system9
bash9
configuration-management9
build-automation9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/impermanence
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 64 commits, 88 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the development of NixOS and Home Manager modules for handling persistent state. Their work involved writing Nix code to manage files and directories, including linking and bind mounting them to persistent storage locations. They refactored the modules, improved the code's robustness, added features, and addressed issues. The user also made improvements to the underlying `lib.nix` file.
ephemeraltmpfsnixosmaintainerhome-manager
nix-community/emacs-overlay
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 22 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily focused on enhancing the parsing and processing of Emacs Lisp configuration files within the Nix build system. They implemented features to handle `:ensure` and `:disabled` directives in `use-package` declarations, ensuring only relevant packages are included. Their work involved modifications to parsing logic using the `fromElisp` library, incorporating changes to the `parse.nix` and `elisp.nix` files to adapt for the new behavior and integrating additional features, such as a `alwaysTangle` flag. The user also made improvements in code structure and fixing spelling and indentation issues within multiple files.
maintaineredgeoverlayemacsbleeding-edge
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