2026-08-07 –, Nix Vegas Main Stage
Have you ever experienced being rate limited by GitHub? Has GitHub downtime prevented you from building software that you rely on? Are you worried about supply chain attacks? At Exa, we developed a secure, hostable, tarball cache that insulates us from GitHub outages, decreases our build times, protects us from force-pushes upstream, and increases download speeds.
Ethan is a FLOSS advocate, longtime Nix user and contributor, and engineer. He's an active member of the Nixpkgs CUDA, Darwin, and NGI teams and is involved in various other efforts throughout the Nix ecosystem.
He currently works on building the infrastructure for the future of websearch at Exa.ai and studies Computer Science at Harvard University.