Monty Montgomery
Vice President, Solutions Engineer II at Bank of America
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMonty Montgomery is a telecommunications and networking leader with 23 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President, Solutions Engineer II at Bank of America in Charlotte. He combines deep carrier-grade expertise in SBCs, VoLTE, SS7/Sigtran and IMS with hands-on systems engineering, having led integrations, lab validations and escalations for Verizon, Samsung and major carriers. Monty pairs operational rigor—incident management, KPI-driven service assurance and tooling like Check_MK, NetScout and Grafana—with software-level performance work, contributing low-level optimizations to open-source projects such as the rav1e AV1 encoder and GIMP tile-cache improvements. Comfortable in both field and lab environments, he has driven virtualization and OpenStack preparedness while authoring technical scopes of work and runbooks. He also brings a curious maker streak—co-founding a small business and contributing code that improved codec efficiency and caching strategies—reflecting a mix of leadership, troubleshooting depth and low-level performance tuning.
23 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Business Administration Marketing Emphasis, Bachelor's, Business Administration Marketing Emphasis at American InterContinental UniversityN/A, Cisco, A-, N/A, Cisco, A- at Collin County Community CollegeDiploma, Marketing and Supervision, Diploma, Marketing and Supervision at Platte County RIII VO-Tech
Github Skills (16)
algorithm10
c1710
data-structures10
algorithms10
rust10
c1110
bit-manipulation10
bitstream10
performance-optimization10
video-codec10
binary-stream10
data-structure10
gimp10
system-design9
software-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xiph/rav1e
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:144 commits, 109 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Monty primarily contributed to optimizing the AV1 encoder (rav1e) by implementing and refining specific low-level features. Their work involved configuring loop restoration, reading and converting 10-bit Y4M input, and adjusting the writing of intra prediction modes within the bitstream. Further contributions include debugging and fixing a CDEF bounds error and implementing CDEF functionality, alongside introducing new parameter adjustments to increase the efficiency of the codec.
encoderav1av1-encoder
GNOME/gimp
May 2009 - Jun 2009
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Monty focused on optimizing the GIMP tile cache and swapping mechanisms. They added profiling to analyze tile usage, identifying inefficiencies and improving performance. The contributions included changes to the tile data pointer macro, and replacing the clean-first cache strategy with an LRU strategy. Additionally, the user made minor improvements and corrections related to output flushing and including necessary headers.
gimpgnome
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