Scouting report
Pi-hole-for-Android creator, 2,000+ stars in sysadmin tooling
assessed from open-source footprint
DesktopECHO is the clear star-power standout here: primary author of 'Pi-hole for Android' (633★) and 'Pi-hole for WSL1' (438★), totaling 2,161 stars and 191 followers across DevOps/systems work in Shell, Batchfile and C++. With 819 commits last year and an 8+ year account, the real-world adoption of his privacy/DNS tooling is the headline; note PR-into-others activity is minimal (3 merged). A strong pick for infrastructure, networking, or systems/DevOps roles.
Authorship & open source
What they build
Industry experience
- E-commerce & Retail
Signal breakdown
2,161
top repo 633
24
42% forks
191
8.6 yr
2
Active
38% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 96% of commits on Pi-hole-for-Android
- 819 commits in the past year
- 2,161 stars earned across projects
- A standout project with 633 stars
- Ships to production — 2 live demos
- Consistently active, low abandonment
- Mobile focus with DevOps
About
Backend Engineer from Bermuda, active on GitHub with 43 public repositories and 191 followers. Explore the work and reach out on GitHub.
Skills
- Batchfile
- Wsl
- Java
- Shell
- Pi Hole
- Wsl1
- Wsl2
- Android
Featured work
Pi Hole For Android
Pi-hole/Unbound Raspbian APK Installer for Android 5.0+ devices (requires root)
- Shell
- Adb
- Adblocker
- Android
- Pi Hole
by DesktopECHO
Pi Hole For WSL1
Ad-blocking DNS server for Windows • Unbound pre-configured • Deploy in minutes • Does not require hypervisor or docker
- Batchfile
- Dns
- Pi Hole
- Pihole
- Privacy
by DesktopECHO