Ron Efroni
Special guest
Ron is the CEO and co-founder of Flox and serves as President of the NixOS Foundation, where he’s dedicated to bringing Nix to the global developer community.
Ron’s journey began in the elite technical units of the IDF (8200), first as a software engineer and later leading the development of large-scale field-operated products. After his service, Ron founded his first company to tackle the many-to-many traveling salesman problem in school transportation, aiming to make student travel safer and more accessible.
Later, he moved into the world of developer tooling at Meta (Facebook), heading the developer products team that supported a 20,000-person engineering organization. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools and the potential of Nix, Ron co-founded Flox alongside Michael Brantley to make Nix more accessible across the broader developer ecosystem.
In his role as President of the NixOS Foundation, Ron guides key initiatives that strengthen and support Nix’s global community. He also leads INTRO, the largest Israeli tech community in California, as its president.
Ron Efroni has been a guest on 3 episodes.
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606: Nix's Magic Cookbook
March 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 38 mins
aneesh agrawal, anthropic, apple tv, atv-desktop-remote, bang boost, bang bus, chromebook, deep dive, ebpf, eelco dolstra, firefox, flakes, flox, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kelsey hightower, laser tag champions, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mike kelly, mozilla, nix in the wild, nixbook, nixos, olympia mike, planet nix, producer jeff, pyatv, ron efroni, ross turk, rust, scale, system76, the launch, thunderbird, tui challenge, year of the terminal, 🚐
We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.
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604: One Week Left
March 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
alby hub, android auto, audiobookshelf, chromebook, dendrite, element, flox, fountain, graphene os, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, karousel, kelsey hightower, libro.fm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, matrix, niri, nixbook, nixos, openaudible, openaudible-to-audiblebookshelf, paperwm, planet nix, robert hernandez, ron efroni, scale, synapse, 🤟❄️⚖️, 🦒
We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.
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554: SCaLEing Nix
March 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
ai, alaska, california, castamatic, community, daphne muller, dconf, determinate systems, docker, eelco dolstra, flox, fossnorth, fountain, germany, gnome, gsettings, hydra, jim klark, jos poortvliet, lanzaboote, martin wimpress, ml, nextcloud, nix, nix-starter-configs, nixcon, nixcon na, nixos, nixos desktop, nixpkgs, nostr, podcast addict, podcast guru, podverse, ross turk, ryan lahfa, scale, scale 21x, secure boot, self-hosted ai, southern california linux expo, tom bereknyei, ubucon, wimpy, yuba city, zach mitchell
We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.