Robert Jongbloed
Company Lead Developer at OPAL
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Jongbloed is a veteran software architect and hands-on engineering leader with over three decades of experience building embedded systems, real-time and cloud communications, and VoIP/WebRTC solutions. As Company Lead Developer at Mobile Tornado and long-time consultant through Vox Lucida, he blends enterprise architecture, Scrum leadership and active development—often focusing on SIP, H.323 and PSTN integrations. He created and continues to support the open-source OpenH323/OPAL multimedia library and has contributed protocol dissectors and RTP/RTCP improvements to the widely used Wireshark project. His background spans military aerospace to commercial video conferencing and 3G videotelephony test instruments, reflecting a rare depth across low-level protocols and user-facing systems. Based in London, he pairs pragmatic delivery with deep protocol expertise, frequently solving interoperability and real-time performance challenges that are easy to overlook.
32 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Comp.Sci., Computer Science, B.Comp.Sci., Computer Science at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
telephony10
tshark10
sdp10
voip10
sip10
sips10
packet-capture10
cprogramming-language10
wireshark10
rtp10
freeswitch10
sys9
embedded9
coder8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Wireshark codebase by implementing features and fixing issues related to dissecting various network protocols. Their work included improvements in the display of VP8 sub-protocol information within RTP, and support for SDP attributes for handling RTCP and RTP bundling. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug in the SIP dissector related to matching INVITE requests and responses, and optimized the UDP and conversation handling.
tsharkgit-repositorywiresharkpacket-capturegitlab
joegen/opalvoip-ptlib
Jul 1993 - Aug 2019
Contributions:10876 commits in 26 years 6 months
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