Summary
Roman Shpount is a seasoned telecommunications CTO with over 25 years building mission-critical VoIP, WebRTC, and RTC systems, currently leading engineering at TurboBridge while running Telurix and RSHP Consulting. He specializes in high-performance call control agents, software media servers, IVR, PBX, conferencing, and carrier interop, and has influenced the field as a co-author of RFCs 8839, 8841, and 8842. Roman blends deep protocol expertise (SIP, RTP, VXML) with hands-on product leadership, shipping robust real-time communications used in large-scale call centers and conferencing deployments. Based in Bethesda, MD, he pairs enterprise-grade engineering with entrepreneurial agility, often delivering software-only solutions where traditional telephony relied on hardware.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at University of Maryland
Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)