Robin Stumm is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling, currently at Input Output (IOHK) working on Cardano infrastructure. He combines hands-on DevOps craftsmanship—especially with Nix and cross-platform build automation—with SRE responsibilities like on-call operations and cost optimization. As a frequent open-source contributor, he maintains and extends home-manager modules and has modernized CI workflows for high-profile Cardano repos, improving multi-platform builds and task automation. His background spans freelance engineering and embedded/Java backend work, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective on developer experience. Not obvious from the title: he prefers reproducible, declarative systems (NixOS) and explores emerging languages like Zig, reflecting a taste for composable, low-friction tooling.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, none, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, none at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Abitur, 2.5, Abitur, 2.5 at Städtisches Gymnasium Hennef
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Focus on User Environment Configuration)
Contributions:10 reviews, 16 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributes to the `home-manager` repository by fixing configuration errors and implementing new modules for user environment management. They address issues related to evaluation errors within existing modules, like those for `git` and `home-environment`. The user also develops new modules, exemplified by the implementation of the `browserpass` and the `zsh` plugin manager, enhancing the user's ability to customize their system. Furthermore, they refined existing functionalities like the `kakoune` whitespace highlighter and the `broot` integration.
The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:17 reviews, 10 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Robin focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline for the Cardano node project. They integrated Cicero and Tullia for task management, enhanced Nix configuration for builds, and modernized the CI process to build across multiple platforms. Their contributions included optimizing build processes and updating Tullia to support PRs from forks, demonstrating a focus on automation and build efficiency.
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Robin Stumm - Site Reliability Engineer at Input Output (IOHK)