Julien Malka aka Luj
PhD Student in Software Supply Chain Security
PhD student at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris researching software supply chain security. Former theoretical CS student at École Normale Supérieure. NixOS Steering Committee member and contributor, working on unattended boot security and maintaining a Proxmox port on NixOS. FOSS enthusiast running a hyper-converged, highly available home cluster. Interested in putting digital skills in the service of the public good.
Available for freelance work in software security, NixOS, or infrastructure projects.
Writing
20260128T000000==public--lila-decentralized-build-reproducibility-monitoring__research
- 20260119T000000==public--docker-does-not-guarantee-reproducibility__research
- 20251001T000000==public--how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz-attack__research
- My hopes and plans for the NixOS community
- Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts
- How NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor for the benefit of all
Notes21
- Steering Committee Report - Apr 21 2026steeringcommittee
- Steering Committee Report - Apr 1st 2026steeringcommittee
- Christina Sørensenpeople
- Ilya Katsnelsonpeople
- Thomas Bereknyeipeople
- Robert Hensingpeople
- Philip Taronpeople
- (Updated) Proposal to rebuild the moderation teamsteeringcommittee
- Steering Committee Report - Dec 5 2025steeringcommittee
- (Initial) Proposal to rebuild the moderation teamsteeringcommittee
- Steering Committee Report - Nov 16 2025steeringcommittee
- NixOS Steering Committeenote