Thomas Mccarthy-howe
Chief Technology Officer at Strolid, Inc.
West Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Mccarthy-howe is a veteran communications and systems architect with 18 years of leadership experience building privacy-first conversational AI and real-time communications infrastructure. As CTO he created and commercialized the VCON Virtual Conversation standard—now advancing through the IETF—to enable secure, auditable containers for voice, video and chat data across enterprise, government, and consumer domains. He has repeatedly scaled products from prototype to millions of conversations, led high-retention engineering teams, authored multiple IETF drafts and patents, and driven acquisitions and exits. Based in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, he blends deep low-level communications engineering (from modem and satellite links to SIP and VoIP) with practical productization for contact centers and automotive applications. Notably, his work bridges industry standards, regulatory-ready data governance, and hands-on platform architecture, positioning him as a rare connector between protocol design and commercial conversational AI.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Data Privacy and Technology, Data Privacy and Technology at Harvard Business School OnlineGraduate Study in Digital Communications, Graduate Study in Digital Communications at Northeastern UniversityUMass LowellMiddletown High SchoolDennis Yarmouth Regional High School
Github Skills (32)
chat10
javascript9
ietf9
meteor9
webrtc9
slack9
collaboration9
django8
data-protection8
communications8
database7
application7
frontend6
fine-tuning6
vector-database6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vcon-dev/vcon-server
Mar 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 reviews, 77 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 years 4 months
howethomas/voxeo-auto-dialer
Jul 2008 - Nov 2008
Contributions:45 commits in 4 months
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