diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 8848512de6fd..8b265d59e6f2 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -5554,6 +5554,12 @@
     githubId = 7622248;
     name = "Sebastian Zivota";
   };
+  locallycompact = {
+    email = "dan.firth@homotopic.tech";
+    github = "locallycompact";
+    githubId = 1267527;
+    name = "Daniel Firth";
+  };
   lopsided98 = {
     email = "benwolsieffer@gmail.com";
     github = "lopsided98";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/luv/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/luv/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ad5ce5d4879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/luv/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib, buildDunePackage, fetchurl
+, ctypes, result
+, alcotest
+, file
+}:
+
+buildDunePackage rec {
+  pname = "luv";
+  version = "0.5.7";
+  useDune2 = true;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/aantron/luv/releases/download/${version}/luv-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0wjnw5riydnzsk1xdzljlpzdnjwpa0j597y6x6ma4990mqj54260";
+  };
+
+  postConfigure = ''
+    for f in src/c/vendor/configure/{ltmain.sh,configure}; do
+      substituteInPlace "$f" --replace /usr/bin/file file
+    done
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ file ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ ctypes result ];
+  checkInputs = [ alcotest ];
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/aantron/luv";
+    description = "Binding to libuv: cross-platform asynchronous I/O";
+    # MIT-licensed, extra licenses apply partially to libuv vendor
+    license = with licenses; [ mit bsd2 bsd3 cc-by-sa-40 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ locallycompact sternenseemann ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index a0556ccecb16..8b4b56d57a49 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ let
 
     lua-ml = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lua-ml { };
 
+    luv = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/luv {
+      inherit (pkgs) file;
+    };
+
     lwt = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lwt {
       ocaml-migrate-parsetree = ocaml-migrate-parsetree-2-1;
     };