I'm Philip Taron, a Principal Member of Technical Staff with Qumulo. This is my work-only account. @philiptaron is my other one.

Qumulo builds the world's best filesystem. You can trust it to store, manage, and curate your most important data, anywhere in the world. It gives you total control: yes to every cloud, yes to every hardware vendor, yes to performance and yes to correctness. I am extremely proud to continue to be part of the team that makes this product come to life. Join us!

I'm a member of the Steering Committee for Nix and NixOS for the 2025-2026 term. I also help run the GitHub actions which power continuous integration for Nixpkgs.

I'm a member of the Tailscale insiders. I believe in their vision of a fully secured network that needs no authentication because every service has a crytographically assured knowledge of the peer that's connecting. That's amazing.

1. Immutable, reproducible infrastructure. I'm making use of Nix to implement this.
2. Using AI to do work. Recently, that means using llm a lot.
3. Distributed systems, especially filesystems and other core storage technology. While Qumulo is a closed-source product, I'm excited about what I can share with the world of what we've built.
4. Build systems, especially incremental ones.
5. Code generation. Writing code that writes code allows me to be far more productive and powerful as an individual developer than I would be otherwise. AI multiplies this multiplicative factor.
6. Applied cryptography and PKI infrastructures, especially for the software supply chain. The idea of being able to have real provenance for all built code is super exciting to me. We're pretty far off, but I can see better from here.
7. Technology that fundamentally reduces complexity, especially making what the completely infeasible merely difficult.

• The Grug Brained Developer
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
• Mistake theory vs. Conflict theory
• The Gift of It's Your Problem Now
• Son of Bride of Bay Area House Party
• Scarcity and Abundance in 2025