Charles Eckel
Principal Engineer, Global Technology Standards at IETF
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorCharles Eckel is a Principal Engineer, Global Technology Standards at Cisco, shaping real-time communications architecture for large-scale enterprise and service-provider networks. With 15+ years as a software architect and developer, he specializes in interoperable signaling and media processing while driving open standards and open-source adoption. He founded and chairs IETF Hackathons, chairs IETF working groups, and leads the IMTC SIP Parity activity group to accelerate multi-vendor SIP-based video interoperability. He serves as MEF Forum Co-Chair for the Test & Certification Committee, and previously led the Digital Services and Applications committees, advancing MEF 3.0 services and APIs. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his career began as one of Vovida Networks’ first employees (acquired by Cisco) and includes leadership roles in Cisco DevNet’s Open Source and Standards initiatives, blending hands-on engineering with strategic standards leadership.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
ietf10
cisco10
genie9
network-automation9
parser9
apic9
napalm9
parse9
adapter9
django8
yang8
python8
datastructure8
wan8
network-flow8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CiscoDevNet/opendaylight-sample-apps
Sep 2015 - Mar 2019
Sample applications for use with OpenDaylight (https://www.opendaylight.org/)
Contributions:7 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
opendaylightnetwork-automation
eckelcu/draft-eckel-edm-find-code
Apr 2021 - Jul 2024
Individual draft for IRTF edm group on how to find code related to Internet-Drafts and RFCs
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 3 months
individualrfcsinternet-draftrfcinternet
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