Aron Podrigal
Founder And CEO at AronTel
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAron Podrigal is a founder and CEO with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience building telecom and backend systems from Chicago. He founded AronTel after rising through technical and leadership roles at MongoTEL where he combined software architecture, infrastructure engineering, and project management. Aron is an active open-source contributor to heavyweight projects like Masonite, OpenSIPS, and FreeSWITCH, with notable work improving mail functionality, SIP server stability, and telecom API robustness. His strengths lie in backend systems, database reliability, memory/locking fixes, and pragmatic automation that keep real-time services resilient. Comfortable shipping code over polish, he prefers solving technical problems to writing marketing copy—yet consistently delivers production-grade fixes and test coverage. That blend of startup leadership and low-level systems expertise makes him effective at turning complex telecom requirements into maintainable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Yeshivas Mir
Github Skills (27)
application-framework10
opensips10
python10
apidoc10
telephony10
testing10
locking10
memory-management10
app-framework10
c1110
voip10
sip10
c1710
e-mail10
masonite10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
signalwire/freeswitch
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a versatile software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. From a Raspberry PI to a multi-core server, FreeSWITCH can unlock the telecommunications potential of any device.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aron primarily contributed to the backend logic of the FreeSWITCH project, focusing on the modification and enhancement of the condition (cond) API. Their work involved escaping special characters in the API, improving its syntax, and addressing and resolving syntax errors. The commits reflect a focus on refining the API's error handling and overall robustness. They also worked on incorporating new features to the Lua API.
telecomproprietarytelecommunicationswebrtccommodity-hardware
OpenSIPS/opensips
Feb 2015 - Apr 2022
OpenSIPS is a GPL implementation of a multi-functionality SIP Server that targets to deliver a high-level technical solution (performance, security and quality) to be used in professional SIP server platforms.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 20 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Aron primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the OpenSIPS SIP server. Their work involved addressing issues related to database queries, memory management, and locking mechanisms. The contributions included fixes for double releases of locks in the drouting module, incorrect contact handling, and handling of invalid lines in the pua_dialoginfo module. They also introduced functionality for compacting headers in the compression module.
professionalsip-servergplsecurityhigh-level
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