Thomas Bereknyei

Life-long engineer. Worked at Google, flew jet planes in the Marine Corps, trained cyberware teams, formed and led teams to perform rapid hardware and software capability development, worked with the Digital Service to bring modern software practices to the DoD and government. Left the service to create a contracting startup bringing AI/ML products to DoD. Throughout have found a consistent set of challenges in the course of development; also found a set of superpowers to address those challenges using Nix. After several iterations of applying the Nix ecosystem in various teams, the difference was stark. This led to the desire to bring this set of superpowers to the rest of the world and make it more adoptable; hence the involvement in the Nix community as a maintainer, founding Flox, and leading efforts to improve user experience and communicate it to the world.