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in order. in order.
My name's Tristan, I'm an avid Dutch-South African software My name's Tristan, I'm an avid Dutch-South African software
consultant working in the UK. You probably either met me at an engineer. You probably either met me at an open source conference,
open source conference, a hackathon, a badminton session or at a hackathon, a badminton session or at a roleplaying table.
a roleplaying table.
If not, well, this is also a great place to "meet" me. Have a If not, well, this is also a great place to "meet" me. Have a
nosey! nosey!
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<markdown> <markdown>
### My Work ### My Work
I'm a software consultant working for I'm interested in a variety of things in the open source
[Codethink](https://www.codethink.co.uk) in Manchester, world. Perhaps thanks to my pursuit of the perfect Linux desktop,
UK. Our specializaiton is open source software, so this has this has revolved a lot around reproducible build and deployment
allowed me to directly contribute to a number of open source systems for the last few years, initially starting with
projects, notably [BuildStream](https://buildstream.build/) back in ~2017. I gave a
[BuildStream](https://www.gitlab.com/buildstream/buildstream), couple of talks on it at build meetups in the UK in subsequent
an integration tool for large software stacks. years, though sadly most evidence of that appears to have
disappeared.
I've given a couple of talks on it, as well: Since then this has culminated in a strong fondness for
[NixOS](https://nixos.org/) and Nix, as its active community makes
private use cases much more feasible. As such, I have a vested
interest in making this community as large as possible - I post a
lot on the NixOS [discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/) trying
to help newcomers out where I can.
- Build meetup 2017 I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages for personal work
- Build meetup 2018 are currently probably Rust and Python, although I have a very
- Build meetup 2019 varied background. This is in part due to my former work as a
consultant, which required new languages every few months. I have
Outside of work for Codethink, I'm generally interested in experience from JavaScript over Elm to Kotlin, but eventually I
things such as NixOS and other tools that assist maintaining hope I might only need to write Rust ;)
Linux systems - mostly born out of my pursuit of the perfect
Linux desktop (feel free to have a browse through my
[dotfiles](https://github.com/tlater/dotfiles)).
I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages currently are
Rust, Python, Lisp and JavaScript (including a number of
frameworks and tools for these), although I have hopes to
eventually reduce these to just Rust ;)
If you're interested in seeing these things for yourself, If you're interested in seeing these things for yourself,
visit my [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/tlater) and visit my [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/tlater) and