diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xgboost/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xgboost/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0006792ed2aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xgboost/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchgit }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "xgboost-${version}";
+  version = "2016-05-14";
+
+  # needs submodules
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost";
+    rev = "9c26566eb09733423f821f139938ff4105c3775d";
+    sha256 = "0nmhgl70mnc2igkfppdw2in66zdczzsqxrlsb4bknrglpp3axnm1";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    cp -r include $out
+    install -Dm755 lib/libxgboost.so $out/lib/libxgboost.so
+    install -Dm755 xgboost $out/bin/xgboost
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost";
+    license = licenses.apl20;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b31b2b8c8fdb..690dab41d413 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9297,6 +9297,8 @@ in
 
   xalanc = callPackage ../development/libraries/xalanc {};
 
+  xgboost = callPackage ../development/libraries/xgboost { };
+
   # Avoid using this. It isn't really a wrapper anymore, but we keep the name.
   xlibsWrapper = callPackage ../development/libraries/xlibs-wrapper {
     packages = [
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c2eec6d9d2e8..1df9397f33e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -26610,6 +26610,28 @@ in modules // {
     };
   };
 
+  xgboost = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "xgboost-${version}";
+
+    inherit (pkgs.xgboost) version src meta;
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ scipy ];
+    buildInputs = with self; [ nose ];
+
+    postPatch = ''
+      cd python-package
+
+      cat <<EOF >xgboost/libpath.py
+      def find_lib_path():
+        return ["${pkgs.xgboost}/lib/libxgboost.so"]
+      EOF
+    '';
+
+    postInstall = ''
+      rm -rf $out/xgboost
+    '';
+  };
+
   xkcdpass = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "xkcdpass-${version}";
     version = "1.4.2";