Norm Brandinger
Senior Network Engineer at Planet Networks
Andover, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolNorm Brandinger is a senior network engineer and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building carrier-grade VoIP and voice AI platforms for companies like Twilio, Vonage, Five9, and WarpMe. He combines hands-on systems and software engineering—contributing bug fixes to the FreeSWITCH open-source telecom stack—with executive experience designing scalable, high-availability voice infrastructure and ML-driven virtual voice assistants. Known for turning experimental AI/ML concepts into production features, he architected a virtual voice assistant that schedules meetings and automates PBX tasks and built Vonage’s SBC deployment supporting 100,000 customers. Comfortable leading distributed engineering teams and reducing technical debt, he consistently aligns technology decisions with business outcomes to improve revenue and cut costs. Based in Andover, NJ, he also brings entrepreneurial insight from founding and running GOES, where he built carrier services and DSL offerings from the ground up.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering & Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering & Computer and Information Sciences at University of Florida
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Github Skills (10)
telephony10
open-source10
c-language10
sips10
cprogramming-language10
voip10
freeswitch10
sip10
rtp9
xml9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
signalwire/freeswitch
Aug 2015 - Apr 2021
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Norm primarily contributed to the FreeSWITCH project by fixing bugs and improving core functionality. They addressed issues in the `mod_opus` codec, corrected parameter definitions, and fixed XML generation, improving the reliability of the software. Further contributions include fixes to the logging for the RTP module and resolving C++ compile warnings in `mod_v8`.
telecomproprietarytelecommunicationswebrtccommodity-hardware
freeswitch/mod_mosquitto
Jun 2020 - Dec 2024
mod_mosquitto is a FreeSWITCH interface to an MQTT broker using the Eclipse Mosquitto project C client library.
Contributions:2 releases, 16 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 6 months
mosquittobrokerpaho-mqttfreeswitchclient-library
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