Michael Ricordeau
Founder & CTO at Plivo Inc
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Ricordeau is a founder and CTO with 16 years of experience building high-availability, scalable communication platforms from the infrastructure up. As the driving technical force behind Plivo (a YC-backed startup that raised $1.75M from top Silicon Valley investors), he blends product-led engineering with deep telecom expertise to deliver enterprise-grade voice and messaging APIs across 190+ countries. He began his career in systems and telecom architecture, implementing VoIP, fraud-prevention algorithms, and carrier integrations while mentoring engineering teams and contributing to open-source telephony projects like Freeswitch and Asterisk. Hands-on by design, Michael has made substantial backend contributions to plivo/plivoframework, improving event socket, command execution, and session management in a production telephony framework. Based in Austin, he pairs operational rigor with entrepreneurial vision, focusing on customer experience, scalability, and continual platform innovation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who turns complex telecom protocols into reliable developer-facing products.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Technician Degree System and Network Administration, Technician Degree System and Network Administration at GROUPE IGS
French, English
Github Skills (11)
backend10
event-handling10
python10
concurrency10
freeswitch10
gevent10
restful-api7
api-design7
testing7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
plivo/plivoframework
Nov 2010 - Feb 2015
Open Source Telephony Application Prototyping Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:594 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on modifying and refactoring the core event socket functionality of the telephony framework. Their commits involved significant code changes within the `telephonie` project, including improvements to event dispatching, command execution, and session management. They also addressed bugs and introduced new features in modules related to event handling and communication.
telephony
sanandnarayan/plivo-ruby
May 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:44 commits in 10 months
rubyplivohelper-library
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