diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 99d4c3e1832..fe58405eb10 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
   exlevan = "Alexey Levan <exlevan@gmail.com>";
   falsifian = "James Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca>";
   flosse = "Markus Kohlhase <mail@markus-kohlhase.de>";
+  fluffynukeit = "Daniel Austin <dan@fluffynukeit.com>";
   fpletz = "Franz Pletz <fpletz@fnordicwalking.de>";
   ftrvxmtrx = "Siarhei Zirukin <ftrvxmtrx@gmail.com>";
   funfunctor = "Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan@alterapraxis.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/atom-shell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/atom-shell/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..141ba284cc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/atom-shell/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildEnv, makeDesktopItem, makeWrapper, zlib, glib, alsaLib
+, dbus, gtk, atk, pango, freetype, fontconfig, libgnome_keyring3, gdk_pixbuf
+, cairo, cups, expat, libgpgerror, nspr, gconf, nss, xlibs, libcap, unzip
+}:
+let
+  atomEnv = buildEnv {
+    name = "env-atom";
+    paths = [
+      stdenv.gcc.gcc zlib glib dbus gtk atk pango freetype libgnome_keyring3
+      fontconfig gdk_pixbuf cairo cups expat libgpgerror alsaLib nspr gconf nss
+      xlibs.libXrender xlibs.libX11 xlibs.libXext xlibs.libXdamage xlibs.libXtst
+      xlibs.libXcomposite xlibs.libXi xlibs.libXfixes xlibs.libXrandr
+      xlibs.libXcursor libcap
+    ];
+  };
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "atom-shell-${version}";
+  version = "0.19.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/releases/download/v0.19.1/atom-shell-v0.19.1-linux-x64.zip";
+    sha256 = "10q1slwv2lkiqqxpv0m5a1k0gj2yp8bi9a7ilb05zz1wg7j3yw4y";
+    name = "${name}.zip";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ atomEnv makeWrapper unzip ];
+
+  phases = [ "installPhase" "fixupPhase" ];
+
+  unpackCmd = "unzip";
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    unzip -d $out/bin $src
+    patchelf --set-interpreter "$(cat $NIX_GCC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)" \
+    $out/bin/atom
+    mv $out/bin/atom $out/bin/atom-shell
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/atom-shell \
+    --prefix "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" : "${atomEnv}/lib:${atomEnv}/lib64"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Cross platform desktop application shell";
+    homepage = https://github.com/atom/atom-shell;
+    license = [ licenses.mit ];
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.fluffynukeit ];
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 29d66b1958d..6d0284a6bad 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4306,6 +4306,11 @@ let
 
   astyle = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/astyle { };
 
+  atom-shell = callPackage ../development/tools/atom-shell {
+    gconf = pkgs.gnome.GConf;
+  };
+
+
   autobuild = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autobuild { };
 
   autoconf = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/autoconf { };