Re: Question about the use of GNU Guix in production

[Daniel Riesner <danielriesner@posteo.net>]

On 07.09.22 19:09, Philip Beadling wrote:
> Hi
>
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> *> *. Since I'm
> > currently looking for a job, besides academic institutions, are there
> > any companies known to use GNU Guix, which maybe even have open
> > positions preferably in Germany or remote? Or do you maybe know of any
> > places where such offers are shared as it is done e.g. for NixOS in
> > their discourse forum?
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Daniel Riesner
>
> Just FYI - I've hired one senior developer (at Quantile Technologies 
> Ltd) where the job spec mentioned Guix knowledge as preferred, but not 
> a requirement.  To widen the net, I said anyone with a working 
> knowledge of Scheme or LISP who was prepared to learn Guix was good 
> enough for me.  The person I hired had some knowledge of NixOS, decent 
> LISP background, and had heard of Guix, but picked-up most of their 
> Guix knowledge after hiring.  The role is approx 50% Guix/Guile, and 
> 50% unrelated development work (Scala/C++/Python/etc).
>
> I'm not hiring at the moment, and no plans, but might have 
> development/devops crossover positions in the future similar to this - 
> probably not fully remote tho, and London based.  I would probably 
> post these on Guix Developers if and when they come about.
>
> In general, you don't hear of many roles, but I hope that will change 
> in time!
>
Hi Philip,

thanks for your reply!

Best wishes
Daniel