PhD student · Software supply chain security
Julien Malka aka Luj
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-bootbackend; 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;
- Understanding Build Reproducibility in the F-Droid Ecosystem
- NICE: A Framework for Declarative and Machine-Checkable Vulnerability Reproduction
- A Decade of Software Reproducibility in the Nix Package Ecosystem
- AI Agents Decline Free Beer 🍺 but Have a Big Heart ❤️
- Lila: Decentralized Build Reproducibility Monitoring for the Functional Package Management Model