Luc Perkins
Software Engineer at Determinate Systems, Inc.
Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolLuc Perkins is a software engineer with 13 years of experience focused on developer experience, documentation, and cloud-native frontends, currently advocating for Nix at Determinate Systems. He blends full-stack and DevOps skills—authoring and maintaining Nix-based dev templates and contributing back-end improvements and CLI tooling—while also shipping polished websites and docs for many CNCF projects like Jaeger, Tekton, Envoy and OpenTelemetry. A prolific open-source contributor, Luc has touched high-profile projects across observability and infra (Vector, Prometheus/OpenMetrics, gRPC, Helm, KEDA) and co-authored Seven Databases in Seven Weeks. His background in technical writing and developer advocacy informs a rare combination of clear documentation, UX-minded front-end work, and automation-first build/release improvements. Based in Vicente López, Buenos Aires, he pairs academic rigor (a PhD in political theory) with pragmatic engineering, often surfacing subtle UX and build-system issues others overlook. He prefers engineering-focused roles—explicitly not developer advocate positions—and focuses on making reproducible, maintainable developer environments.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Political science (political theory), Ph.D, Political science (political theory) at Duke UniversityPolitical science, Critical theory, political philosophy, globalization, Political science, Critical theory, political philosophy, globalization at Reed CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ridgefield High School
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (110)
env10
hugo-theme10
hugo10
website-development10
github10
nix10
command-line-interface10
bash10
f10
commonmark10
repr10
opentelemetry10
web-development10
website-design10
markdown10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
the-nix-way/dev-templates
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Dev environments for numerous languages based on Nix flakes [maintainer=@lucperkins]
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 130 commits, 50 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily contributed to establishing and refining the development environment templates within the Nix ecosystem. Their work included adding support for various languages (Go, Rust, Java, Node.js, Scala, Elixir, etc.), incorporating essential tools (e.g., direnv, cachix, etc.), and improving the build process by adding tools like nixpkgs-fmt. They also enhanced the project by adding helper scripts for formatting, updating flake.lock files, and creating an overall more robust and flexible development experience.
dev-environmentnix-flakeflakesnixreproducibility
etcd-io/website
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
etcd.io
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:195 commits, 66 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily focused on enhancing the website's aesthetics and user experience. They made significant UI improvements by updating the front-page design elements, specifically modifying the layout of features, info, and hero sections using HTML and Sass. Additionally, they implemented the addition of interactive elements, like a GitHub button and documentation links on the main page and blog, and enhanced the documentation with a versioning system.
etcd
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