Dan Langille is a veteran systems administrator and software engineer with 22 years of experience bridging development and operations, currently at Cisco and based in Pennsylvania. He brings deep expertise in systems administration, software and database design/tuning, and a long history of post-implementation support and lifecycle ownership. A prolific open-source contributor since 1998, Dan has maintained FreeBSD infrastructure and projects (FreshPorts, The FreeBSD Diary), contributed to PostgreSQL and Bacula (authoring Bacula’s PostgreSQL backend), and helped improve the LibreNMS monitoring platform. He also organizes major community conferences (BSDCan, PGCon), demonstrating rare skills in technical leadership, event stewardship, and community-building alongside hands-on engineering.
22 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science (High Honours), Bachelor, Computer Science (High Honours) at Carleton University
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the LibreNMS network monitoring system by addressing code quality issues and making several functional improvements. They fixed spelling errors and updated deprecated PHP syntax to maintain code standards. The user also updated references to configuration files and implemented changes to improve the validation process. Additionally, they bumped the version number, which shows a role in project maintenance and release management.
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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