Charles Eckel
Principal Engineer, Global Technology Standards at MEF Forum
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorCharles Eckel is a Principal Engineer specializing in real-time communications and interoperability with over 15 years designing large-scale enterprise and service-provider solutions. Based in the Bay Area, he led standards and open-source efforts at Cisco—founding the IETF Hackathon, driving IETF and IMTC working groups, and shepherding reference implementations that make standards deployable. His work spans SIP, video collaboration, and public-safety bridging, including authoring a Bridging Systems spec adopted by DHS and numerous patents protecting signaling and media-processing innovations. A pragmatic architect and early-stage operator (one of the first 10 hires at Vovida), he combines deep C/C++ systems experience with developer advocacy to push running code into standards bodies. Colleagues know him for accelerating vendor interoperability through both technical design and community-building.
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
wan8
network-flow8
exchange8
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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