Damien Sandras
Chief Operating Officer
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Sandras is a veteran telecoms engineer and operator with over 20 years’ experience building and commercializing VoIP and open-standards communications platforms, today serving as COO of Be IP in Brussels. He is the creator of the Ekiga softphone and a long-time Free Software advocate who helped found and ran FOSDEM for eight years, blending deep engineering chops with community leadership. Damien contributes to high-performance SIP server projects like OpenSIPS—improving session timers, DialogInfo behavior and module performance—demonstrating hands-on backend systems expertise. He excels at translating complex customer needs into deployable architectures and leads technical teams to deliver interoperable, standards-driven solutions. Less obvious: his profile spans academic research, R&D and commercial leadership, giving him a rare perspective across protocol design, productization and large-event organization.
21 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Advanced Studies, Computing Science Engineering - Applied Sciences, Master of Advanced Studies, Computing Science Engineering - Applied Sciences at Université catholique de LouvainCollège Saint-Julien Ath
English, French
Github Skills (12)
c1710
dialogflow10
opensips10
sips10
sipjs10
c1110
dialogs10
sipp10
dialog10
networking10
sip10
debugging9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSIPS/opensips
Jul 2013 - Mar 2015
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:43 commits, 9 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Damien made significant contributions to the OpenSIPS SIP server project by implementing fixes and improvements to the Session Timers (SST) module. Their work included resolving issues related to session timers in various scenarios, such as when only one peer supports them or during re-INVITEs. Furthermore, the user enhanced the PUA DialogInfo module, addressing database callback issues, and incorporating options to control PUBLISH behavior. The user also made performance improvements to the modules, and refactored existing code.
opensipssecuritysipsip-server
dsandras/opensips
Mar 2015 - May 2026
OpenSIPS is an 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.
Contributions:1 push, 11 branches, 1 comment in 11 years 3 months
professionalsip-servergplsecurityhigh-level
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