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in order.
My name's Tristan, I'm an avid Dutch-South African software
consultant working in the UK. You probably either met me at an
open source conference, a hackathon, a badminton session or at
a roleplaying table.
engineer. You probably either met me at an open source conference,
a hackathon, a badminton session or at a roleplaying table.
If not, well, this is also a great place to "meet" me. Have a
nosey!
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### My Work
I'm a software consultant working for
[Codethink](https://www.codethink.co.uk) in Manchester,
UK. Our specializaiton is open source software, so this has
allowed me to directly contribute to a number of open source
projects, notably
[BuildStream](https://www.gitlab.com/buildstream/buildstream),
an integration tool for large software stacks.
I'm interested in a variety of things in the open source
world. Perhaps thanks to my pursuit of the perfect Linux desktop,
this has revolved a lot around reproducible build and deployment
systems for the last few years, initially starting with
[BuildStream](https://buildstream.build/) back in ~2017. I gave a
couple of talks on it at build meetups in the UK in subsequent
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
- Build meetup 2018
- Build meetup 2019
Outside of work for Codethink, I'm generally interested in
things such as NixOS and other tools that assist maintaining
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 ;)
I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages for personal work
are currently probably Rust and Python, although I have a very
varied background. This is in part due to my former work as a
consultant, which required new languages every few months. I have
experience from JavaScript over Elm to Kotlin, but eventually I
hope I might only need to write Rust ;)
If you're interested in seeing these things for yourself,
visit my [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/tlater) and