Dan Y-el
Poet at Self-employed
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Y-el is a community-focused Notary Public and poet based in Medford, Massachusetts, with 12 years of professional experience and a background in legal clerical work at a law school. She specializes in assisting transgender people with name-change paperwork, offering pro bono services when her health permits and drawing on deep familiarity with legal filing systems. Alongside civic work, Dan contributes technical expertise to open-source security projects—most notably back-end and eBPF-informed enhancements to the OpenSnitch Linux firewall—to improve connection monitoring and process identification. Her practice blends meticulous attention to detail, lived experience as a disabled trans person, and a commitment to accessible civic support. Volunteering as a theater technician and sustaining a long-running creative practice as a poet, she brings empathy and multidisciplinary problem-solving to both legal aid and technical collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, Theatre/Theater, High School Diploma, Theatre/Theater at Boston College High School
Github Skills (8)
testing10
linux10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
security10
concurrency9
system-programming9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
evilsocket/opensnitch
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 25 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the OpenSnitch application firewall. Their work involved implementing features like live reloading of rules, caching processes for efficient PID lookups, and integrating an eBPF program for connection monitoring. These changes directly enhanced the system's performance, security, and overall functionality related to network traffic management and process identification. The user also wrote tests to ensure the robustness of their code.
firewall-rulesapplication-firewalldata-breachsecuritylinux
tlsnotary/PageSigner
Sep 2015 - Jul 2021
Chromium addon.
Contributions:13 commits, 26 PRs, 111 pushes in 5 years 11 months
chrome-extensionchromiumaddonchrome
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