Dan Libby
President, Founder at Open Source Consulting, S.A.
Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Libby is a seasoned software entrepreneur and open source specialist with over a decade of experience building web applications, developer tools, and infrastructure. As Founder and President of Open Source Consulting, S.A., he has led end-to-end projects from Netscape-era web services and early RSS formats to consumer sites like Epinions and multiple startup platforms where he served as primary developer. He blends application development, database and Unix administration, and project leadership with a particular focus on leveraging and contributing to open source software. More recently he has applied his backend and privacy-minded skills to cryptocurrency tooling, integrating BitcoinJ with Tor to improve Bisq’s peer-to-peer security and network privacy. Based in Costa Rica and grounded in a BS in Computer Information Systems and International Business, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused engineering approach rooted in long-term operational experience. An uncommon thread in his career is translating early internet protocols and projects into modern, privacy-preserving distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Systems, International Business, BS, Computer Information Systems, International Business at Hawaii Pacific UniversitySan Benito High
Github Skills (9)
javas10
socks10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
bitcoinj10
tor10
java10
p2p10
exchange9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bisq-network/bisq
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
A decentralized bitcoin exchange network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 107 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dan's contributions center around integrating Bitcoinj with a Tor proxy within the Bisq network. They initiated work on routing Bitcoinj over jtorproxy and created a `WalletAppKitTorProxy` class. Furthermore, they made changes to `MainViewModel` to initialize the `WalletService` and incorporate a SOCKS5 proxy, using the P2P service for Tor integration. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the network's privacy and security by leveraging Tor for Bitcoin-related operations.
exchangep2pdecentralizedbisqcryptocurrency
dan-da/coinparams
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
provides crypto currency specific information such as key prefixes, DNS seeds, bip32, bip44, etc, available in JSON format.
Contributions:123 commits, 5 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 months
prefixesdnscurrencybip44cryptocurrencies
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