Rok Garbas
Software Engineer at Flox
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolRok Garbas is a versatile software engineer with 17 years of professional experience and a long history of freelance open-source work, now based in Ljubljana and currently building product at Flox. He blends full-stack development, DevOps, and release engineering—strengthening CI/CD, containerization, and Nix-based reproducible builds at organizations like Mozilla and Tweag. Rok’s contributions span prominent projects such as the Nix package manager and NixOS ecosystem, where he improved automation, multi-platform Docker images, and binary cache integration. Equally comfortable shaping frontend UX and docs (Plone, Elm, Sphinx) as he is refactoring build systems and release pipelines, he brings pragmatic end-to-end ownership. A pragmatic tinkerer with roots in systems administration and Python, he often surfaces non-obvious efficiencies by applying Nix to streamline development, testing and deployment workflows.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Gimnazija Jozeta PlecnikaNever Finished Maybe Someday, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Never Finished Maybe Someday, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Faculty of Electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Spanish, German, Polish, Slovenian, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (58)
github-ci10
docker10
plone10
javascript10
python10
nix10
sphinx10
testing10
css10
bash10
flake10
zope10
dockers10
cicd10
webpack10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nixos-search
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Search NixOS packages and options
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:142 reviews, 133 commits, 322 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rok contributed extensively to the front-end development of the NixOS search project. Their work involved setting up the Elm and Webpack build process, integrating various plugins and configurations. Further contributions included initial implementations of the search user interface, including the basic search functionality and the addition of the faceted search with channels and buckets. This included code changes to implement the package and option detailed views.
nixoselmelasticsearchsearch
NixOS/nixos-homepage
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Sources for nixos.org
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:187 reviews, 750 commits, 567 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rok contributed significantly to the NixOS homepage project by implementing and integrating flake.nix, a crucial feature for managing Nix packages and dependencies. They also introduced a NixOS container configuration for testing the homepage and added shell.nix and default.nix files for flake-compat support. Further work included integrating Netlify for deployment and migration to GitHub Actions, demonstrating experience with CI/CD and web development aspects of the project.
nixossourcesnix
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