Dan Loranger is a Senior Electronic Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping medical and industrial electronics, currently contributing at Philips and co-owning ICS-CTRL where he brings ham radio repeater controllers to Raspberry Pi platforms. He blends deep analog and embedded firmware expertise—especially bare-metal microcontroller work—with product-level responsibilities across supply chain, manufacturing, and customer support. Dan has led medical device component integration and high-reliability designs, driven test infrastructure and signal-integrity fixes, and shepherded products from prototype to production. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the svxlink repeater system with new modules and configurability, underscoring his interest in resilient distributed systems. His background includes a master’s in ECE and ongoing CS studies, reflecting a continuous drive to merge software and hardware disciplines.
Advanced repeater system software with EchoLink support for Linux including a GUI, Qtel - the Qt EchoLink client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 commits, 7 PRs, 82 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dan implemented new features and made enhancements to the `svxlink` repeater system software. They added a timer functionality and implemented new modules for site status monitoring, transmitter fan control, and CW configuration. The user also refactored the CW functionality and moved configuration variables from CPP to TCL for improved flexibility. Finally, they addressed merge conflicts and improved documentation.
Advanced repeater system software with EchoLink support for Linux including a GUI, Qtel - the Qt EchoLink client
Contributions:61 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 4 months
linuxguisystem-softwareecholinkrepeater
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Dan Loranger - Senior Electronic Engineer at ICS-CTRL