Business @floxdevelopment | Retired ⚽️🇨🇦
New York
Joined January 2011
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No matter where you go. No matter where you hide. You will still hear Empire State of Mind lyrics somewhere in NYC. Royalties must be going 📈
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Major insight from @tnachen & @robby_mtf convo w/ @floxdevelopment CPO @jambay:
The biggest opps aren't always building something new - they're making something powerful usable💪
Nix has existed for 20+ years & Flox is making the notoriously complex tech simple
Check it out👇
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Flox powers @resolveai's dev environments.
The team triaging production incidents for the world’s biggest companies can now run the same setup locally, in CI, and in prod.
Learn more here: buff.ly/LPpmyrO
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fellow.ai/ supports distributed teams across 100+ countries. But growth exposed familiar problems:
⚠️ Inconsistent dev environments
⚠️ “Works on my machine” failures
⚠️ Slower onboarding + rising release risk
With Flox, Fellow standardized reproducible environments across the SDLC without changing how engineers work.
Result: faster onboarding, higher velocity, fewer fire drills, and a more reliable path from dev → CI → prod.
“Flox gives us a dependable foundation so we can move fast with tight feedback loops.” — Samuel Cormier-Iijima, CTO & Co-Founder
Case study in comments.
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CVE remediation is a dependency-graph problem. Scanning attempts to infer from built artifacts.
Flox/Nix derive artifacts + runtimes from the causal dependency graph. Remediation = dbms lookup + declarative edit: identify artifacts/envs, pin a replacement ref, promote.
Read more in the comments!
Conversations like this remind me that many of today’s most successful companies truly begin with that first engineering hire, the unsung heroes behind the scenes.
Really enjoyed chatting with @karanganesan and sharing his story.
thefirstcommit.substack.com/…
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Saw a tweet about the lunch @cognition, so I dropped a comment asking if there was a kosher option.
Two days later, Max Martin from Cognition AI’s NYC office reached out and invited me in for a kosher lunch and a tefillin wrap with the Jewish team.
We ended up getting a full minyan 10 guys putting on tefillin together.
What started as a comment turned into something really meaningful.
Pictures below.
It was fun to jam with @anthonycorletti on his journey as a serial entrepreneur, 3x founding engineer and how he joined as one of the first hires @crosbylegal.
From developer tooling and code reviews to contract reviews, we covered a lot. More below
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Launching today: Kubernetes, Uncontained by Flox! 🎉
Run the same immutable, declarative environment across local dev → CI → prod Kubernetes clusters (x86 & ARM).
🟣 Faster deployments
🟣 Built-in reproducibility
🟣 SBOMs & atomic rollbacks
For Platform, AI/ML, Security, and Dev teams.
We’re unveiling it this week at #KubeCon North America, Booth 1850 in Atlanta.
✅ Live demos
✅ Chats with the Flox engineering team
✅ Special guest Kelsey Hightower!
Try it for yourself 👉 buff.ly/zO0QpH6
Check the thread for the technical walkthrough, demo video, and press release.
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☃️🏆The York Lions are U SPORTS men’s soccer champions for the first time since 2015.
Christian Zeppieri scored a 116th minute PK to win it after a very light handball was called.
Wild weather called for the perfect knee slide.
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Flox is hosting a CUDA Meet-Up with @NVIDIA on Thursday, Nov 13th at @tryramp HQ in NYC!
We’ll have demos from our teams, plus a panel about GPU-accelerated development featuring:
🟣 David Rukshin, CTO at WorldQuant
🟣 Neil Katz, MD at @DEShawGroup
🟣 Keith Kraus, Director of Eng for CUDA Python and CUDA C++ at NVIDIA
moderated by @BenFutor, Head of Business Operations at Flox.
There’s more…
We’ll be raffling off an NVIDIA DGX Spark unit! 🚀
RSVP link in comments 👇
