Eliot Gable is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 16+ years building telecom, security, and cloud products, currently serving as Lead Principal Product Manager at interface.ai while founding two startups. He combines deep hands‑on systems experience (C/C++, Perl, Python, LAMP, SIP, FreeSWITCH) with product and solutions leadership gained at Pindrop, Broadvox, and Barracuda. Eliot has made notable open‑source contributions to the FreeSWITCH project, improving compilation, maintainability, and adding PostgreSQL support to a widely used telecom stack. His background in networking, wireless, QoS and InfoSec is reinforced by an MBA focused on Information Security and historical CCNA/CWNA/CWSP credentials. He frequently oscillates between shipping low‑level engineering fixes and shaping product strategy, a pattern that powers both his consulting work and entrepreneurial ventures. Based in Akron, Ohio, he also pursues independent game development, reflecting a long‑standing breadth across platforms and languages.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Illinois Math and Science Academy
MBA Master of Business Administration with concentration in Information Security, MBA Master of Business Administration with concentration in Information Security at DeVry University
Information Security, Information Security at Baker College Business and Corporate Services
Cognitive Science: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science: Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University
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
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Eliot primarily contributed to the FreeSWITCH project by addressing compilation issues, refactoring code, and improving database interactions. They fixed compile errors related to the Opal module, demonstrating expertise in the project's codebase and build processes. The user also refactored hash table functions and introduced initial support for PostgreSQL integration, enhancing the project's database capabilities. These changes collectively improve the stability, maintainability, and database options of the core telecom stack.
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