Luna Nova
Linux Distribution Maintainer (Machine Learning Ecosystem) at NixOS
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuna Nova is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient backend systems and maintaining complex open-source ecosystems. Based in Seattle, she currently drives ROCm GPU compute packaging and ML enablement for NixOS, where she led multiple major ROCm version upgrades and upstreamed critical stability and performance fixes. Previously at Block she delivered multi-million-dollar platform cost savings, modernized serverless deployments, and architected low-latency eventing at massive scale. Her open-source work spans developer tooling and user-facing projects—from improving a popular FTB launcher UI to ensuring accurate maintainer metadata in Home Manager—reflecting a blend of full-stack polish and infrastructure rigor. Luna combines deep systems debugging (ROCm runtime, toolchain PIE/ASLR hardening) with pragmatic product-driven delivery, and she’s comfortable navigating both hermetic build farms and production cloud migrations.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
CS50x, Computer Science, CS50x, Computer Science at edXComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (11)
file-handling10
javas10
nixos10
user-interface10
nix10
java10
application9
dotfile9
web-application9
develop9
nixpkgs8
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Slowpoke101/FTBLaunch
Oct 2012 - Jan 2016
Launcher for the FTB Mod Pack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luna primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and overall functionality of the FTB launcher. Their contributions include modifying the UI to load before modpacks, refactoring update checking and related utilities for cleaner code. They also implemented features such as self-updating, improved file copy operations, and cleaned up unused code within the launcher's core components. These changes suggest the user was involved in the ongoing development and maintenance of the launcher.
minecraftftbmodlauncherpack
nix-community/home-manager
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:Community Manager / Developer Advocate
Community Manager / Developer AdvocateContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Luna's contributions primarily involve fixing maintainer references across multiple modules within the Home Manager configuration. These commits update the `meta.maintainers` entries in various configuration files, ensuring accurate attribution for those responsible for specific components. The user's work appears to be focused on improving the project's organization, specifically ensuring the accurate listing of maintainers for different parts of the Home Manager configuration.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
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