Douglas Reno
Distribution Maintainer at Linux From Scratch
Zion, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Reno is a Distribution Maintainer and systems engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and securing a multi-thousand-user Linux distribution and maintaining more than 1,000 packages for Linux From Scratch. He combines deep low-level systems knowledge—packaging, cross-architecture bringup for ARM and RISC-V, and OpenJDK/GNAT binary maintenance—with practical ops skills across Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX and retro platforms. Douglas has led security incident response, reduced OpenJDK patch turnaround to hours, and architected container- and virtualization-based deployment and disaster recovery models. He also preserves and restores legacy systems, contributing to projects like cURL, c-ares, Dovecot and LegacyUpdate, and has migrated major infrastructure stacks (Subversion→Git, Mailman→Sympa, Trac→GitLab). Based in Zion, Illinois, he blends community-facing support and Tier 3 on-call work with upstream maintainership, proving comfortable both fixing obscure platform bugs and running a modern distribution at scale.
8 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Some College, Associate's degree, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Some College at College of Lake CountyLewis University
Github Skills (102)
minecraft10
rtsp10
http10
websocket10
pop310
resolver10
dns10
command-line-tool10
sftp10
encryption10
quest10
async10
mqtt10
ftp10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
renodr/LegacyUpdate
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, and 2000
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 1 month
fixwindows-xpwindowswindows-serviceupdate
renodr/curl
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, TFTP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, RTSP and RTMP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
rtmppop3dictscpcapistrano
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