Chris Baldwin

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About Chris Baldwin

Software Architect, Developer, and Systems Engineer with deep expertise in telecom networking, and complex unified and contact center communications systems. Expertise leading large-scale software design projects that optimize call processing and call routing, delivering business-critical call handling features. Passionate mentor and enthusiastic, collaborative team leader, recognized for delivering high-quality, efficient solutions. Key member of teams that migrated Avaya Aura® UC and CC features securely to the cloud, freeing customers from maintaining on-premises deployments. This enabled critical Avaya Aura elements to be upgraded with zero downtime, allowing 24/7 system operation with no maintenance windows. Integrated Avaya Aura® with a cloud-based 911 solution, ensuring regulatory compliance and employee safety. Designed a secure Python solution to transmit Call Detail Records from cloud to customers. Collaborated with partners including Zoom to integrate their UC clients into Avaya Aura systems, opening new market opportunities for both Avaya and these partners. Doubled capacity of Avaya Aura native audioconferencing, letting users set up quick conference calls using the phone on their desk. Extended Malicious Call Trace feature to SIP environments globally, ensuring contact center agents can report prank calls as their underlying CC deployments updates to SIP. Championed live code inspections, which drive improved quality, reduce production defects, and accelerate the learning curve for new team members. Years of C/C++/Java/Python experience, love writing excellent real-time software and helping others do the same. Love designing new features, debugging customer problems and finding the best solution, and answering questions from field support. Get a kick out of optimizing and refactoring existing software to improve clarity, performance, or reduce memory usage. Years of experience writing documents: system requirements for new features, application notes / white papers / training documents for existing features. Love working issues from high-level planning discussions with product management to low-level debugging of software problems. Speak German very well. Energized by working with colleagues around the world. Specialties- Call processing & routing, including real-time constraints such as limited memory and overload controls- Telecom protocols: VoIP (SIP, H.323), ISDN (PRI/BRI)- Telecom numbering: public (E.164), private (ISO/IEC 11571)- Telecom features & feature transparency: SIP, QSIG (ISO/IEC 11582, etc.)