Michael Dorman
Infrastructure Architect at NVIDIA
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Dorman is an Infrastructure Architect with 15 years of experience designing and maintaining the software that keeps high-stakes manufacturing and data center operations running reliably. Based in Durham, NC, he blends deep systems and automation expertise from long-tenured roles at NVIDIA and as a former CTO, with a pragmatic preference for choosing the right tool for each problem. He contributes to open-source tooling around reproducible builds—helping maintain cabal2nix to bridge Haskell and Nix ecosystems—demonstrating a knack for compatibility fixes in complex dependency trees. Known for solving hard problems with clever, maintainable solutions, he values engineering that enables life outside work and avoids unnecessary complexity.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government at University of Alabama
Github Skills (3)
cabal10
haskell10
nix10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/cabal2nix
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Generate Nix build instructions from a Cabal file
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 24 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on maintaining and adapting the `cabal2nix` project, a tool for generating Nix build instructions from Cabal files. They addressed compatibility issues with updated dependencies, such as `aeson-0.11`, and fixed issues related to test suites. Furthermore, the user made several changes to package configurations related to Haskell and Nix, particularly concerning the inclusion of gstreamer and webkitgtk packages, ensuring compatibility with newer versions of these libraries.
nixcabalhackagehaskellcabal2nix
mdorman/org-blog
Feb 2013 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 release, 131 commits, 14 PRs in 8 years 6 months
org-modehugostatic-site-generator
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