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.
My hopes and plans for the NixOS community
About me I'm excited to share that I'm running for a seat on the NixOS Steering Committee. Before diving into my motivations, I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself --- especially for those in the community I haven't had the chance to work with yet. I am 28 years old and currently based in Paris, France. I have been involved in the NixOS community for about four years, with contributions spanning technical, organizational, and academic domains: Technical work: I am a committer to nixpkgs, where I contribute to maintaining the systemd-boot backend; I am also the author of a port of the Proxmox hypervisor on NixOS. Community involvement: I have helped organize NixCon 2022, participated in the coordination the NixOS devroom at FOSDEM in 2023 and 2024, and organized the Paris NixOS meetup; Academic research: In the context of my PhD, I study the impact of functional package management on the software supply chain and explore possible avenues for improvement.
- 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
- Is NixOS truly reproducible?
- Does Functional Package Management Enable Reproducible Builds at Scale? Yes.
- Increasing trust in the open source supply chain with reproducible builds and functional package management
- (Updated) Proposal to rebuild the moderation teamsteeringcommittee
- Steering Committee Report - Jan 31 2026steeringcommittee
- Steering Committee Report - Dec 5 2025steeringcommittee
- (Initial) Proposal to rebuild the moderation teamsteeringcommittee
- Steering Committee Report - Nov 16 2025steeringcommittee
- NixOS Steering Committeenote
- Steering Committee Report - Nov 10 2025steeringcommittee
- How reproducible is NixOS?talk
- Portable software bills of materials with Nix and systemd portable servicestalk
- Reproducibility of Build Environments through Space and Timetalk
- Public calendars aggregation using Linkaltalk
- Debug your stage-1 systemd with GDB and the NixOS test frameworktalk