Chip Boling
Alabama, United States
Summary
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SeniorChip Boling is a seasoned routing and IP software engineer with over 10 years of focused experience in networking and embedded systems, currently serving as Routing/IP Software Engineer 5 at Ciena after TiBiT's acquisition. He is a long-time consultant and owner of Boling Consulting Solutions, where he led embedded voice, data communications, and customer-facing design work—notably extensive collaboration with Adtran. At Adtran and beyond he drove SDN/NFV integrations, working deeply with ONOS, OpenStack NFVi/MANO, the AT&T/ONF CORD initiative, and tracking OPNFV progress. Chip is an active contributor to the prominent opencord/voltha project, implementing and refactoring OMCI support for Adtran ONUs and resolving complex MIB synchronization issues. Elected to the ONF VOLTHA Technical Steering Team in 2018, he combines hands-on protocol engineering with governance of an influential open-source access project. Based in Alabama, he pairs decades of low-level network protocol expertise with pragmatic system integration skills that accelerate carrier-grade cloud-native transitions.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
python10
networking10
scapy9
telecommunication8
telecom8
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opencord/voltha
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chip primarily contributed to the `opencord/voltha` project by implementing and modifying OMCI (ONT Management and Control Interface) related code, specifically for Adtran ONUs. They worked on updating and refactoring existing OMCI libraries, including the `deprecated.py` file. Their contributions involved creating and managing OMCI frames, setting configurations, and handling MIB (Management Information Base) data synchronization, with a focus on the Adtran ONU implementation. They also addressed issues in the MIB upload process and added definitions for various entities.
hardware-abstractionhardwareabstractionolt
cboling/txrestserver
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
A twisted-python REST server
Contributions:4 releases, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
pythonrest-serverrestrest-apirest-python
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