Matthew Croughan
Project Lead Developer at Platonic.Systems
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Croughan is a Project Lead Developer and founder of nix.how with eight years of experience building reproducible, production-grade systems around Nix and functional programming. Based in Liverpool, he combines hands-on DevOps and backend work—recently contributing Nix-based builds, testing, and deployment tooling to projects like the popular LNbits Lightning wallet—with leadership roles at nixified.ai, Platonic.Systems and Foundries.io. An active community organizer (Nix.Camp) and NixOS contributor, he excels at turning complex deployments into auditable, reproducible pipelines. His work often surfaces less obvious value: shifting teams from ad hoc builds to deterministic, testable artifacts that accelerate development and reduce incidents.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
python10
nix10
aac10
build-automation10
infrastructure-as-code10
back-end-development9
devops9
backend9
system-administration8
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
dockers7
docker7
bitcoins5
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
lnbits/lnbits
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
LNbits, free and open-source Lightning wallet and accounts system.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed significantly to the project by introducing a reproducible build system using Nix and implementing a command-line interface (CLI) wrapper around the uvicorn server. They also refactored code to use StaticFiles() for serving static content and made improvements to the build process. Furthermore, the user worked on setting up Nix-based testing and deployment configurations for the project.
lightning-network-walletlightningwalletlnurl-atmlnbits
MatthewCroughan/high-quality-nix-content
Jun 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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