Tilghman Lesher
Senior Developer at MTA Distributors
Springfield, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolTilghman Lesher is a Senior Developer with 20 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining e-commerce, fulfillment, and telecom systems from the backend to the user interface. Based in Springfield, Tennessee, he currently drives functionality and operational improvements for retail and wholesale websites while integrating primary and third-party fulfillment systems. His open-source contributions to the flagship Asterisk PBX project show deep expertise in SIP handling, channel drivers, memory-leak fixes, and security hardening—practical experience that informs his work on reliable production systems. Tilghman combines pragmatic full-stack problem solving with a willingness to use whatever technology best serves the business, and he’s comfortable working across legacy C codebases to modern web stacks. Outside commercial work he has a long record of nonprofit leadership and operational roles, from organizing conferences to managing budgets and tech strategy. That blend of low-level telephony knowledge and customer-facing web experience makes him a versatile engineer who improves both product stability and user-facing functionality.
20 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy/Computer Science, Philosophy/Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
English
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
sips10
cprogramming-language10
sipp10
sip10
c-programming9
debug9
memory-management9
debugging8
network-protocol8
ajax6
drupal6
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
asterisk/asterisk
Dec 2005 - Jan 2013
The official Asterisk Project repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4579 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tilghman primarily worked on the Asterisk PBX, focusing on core functionalities within the system. Their contributions involved bug fixes and enhancements to channel drivers, especially chan_sip. They also added features, corrected configuration issues, and improved overall stability by addressing memory leaks and addressing code vulnerabilities. Their work touched areas such as SIP handling, CDR management, and incorporating new functionalities, showing a strong understanding of the codebase.
pythonasterisklinuxpbxsip
jcollie/asterisk
Dec 2005 - Jan 2013
Contributions:8132 commits in 7 years 2 months
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