
Tony Minessale
Founder & CEO at SignalWire
Tony Minessale is the Founder and CEO of SignalWire, an enterprise CPaaS that delivers advanced FreeSWITCH as a Service through an elastic-cloud framework and developer-friendly APIs.
He has 25+ years of experience in software engineering, telecommunications and open source.
In founding SignalWire, Tony’s mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream came to light.
- Software Engineer
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Brookfield, WI
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Anthony has 20 years of experience in software engineering, and 15 of them dedicated to telecommunications. In 2005, Anthony founded FreeSWITCH, the Open-Source Software-Defined Telecom engine used by the Enterprise worldwide to power their platforms.
FreeSWITCH is a cross-platform software stack written in C and C++ that implements a fully-functional telecommunications engine. FreeSWITCH has a large active community and is used in most popular CPaaS platforms as the core telephony stack.
As an avid open-source advocate, Anthony has spent his career working to create a world where open-source software is an effective development model and a critical component in a successful business model. He believes that by uniting the two concepts, developers of the world can learn to accelerate ideas and then take them to the next level.
Together with a team of the best minds in the industry, Anthony founded SignalWire in 2018. SignalWire has a primary mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream. Going two steps beyond where FreeSWITCH leaves off, SignalWire solves the recurring problems faced by companies today trying to digitally transform their legacy hardware solutions. Likewise, new companies are sprouting up every day, and it’s critical that these startups can solve their communications needs quickly and economically.

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Tony Minessale
Founder & CEO at SignalWire
- Software Engineer
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Brookfield, WI
Tony Minessale is the Founder and CEO of SignalWire, an enterprise CPaaS that delivers advanced FreeSWITCH as a Service through an elastic-cloud framework and developer-friendly APIs.
He has 25+ years of experience in software engineering, telecommunications and open source.
In founding SignalWire, Tony’s mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream came to light.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Business Communications
- Open-Source Software
- Software Development
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Anthony has 20 years of experience in software engineering, and 15 of them dedicated to telecommunications. In 2005, Anthony founded FreeSWITCH, the Open-Source Software-Defined Telecom engine used by the Enterprise worldwide to power their platforms.
FreeSWITCH is a cross-platform software stack written in C and C++ that implements a fully-functional telecommunications engine. FreeSWITCH has a large active community and is used in most popular CPaaS platforms as the core telephony stack.
As an avid open-source advocate, Anthony has spent his career working to create a world where open-source software is an effective development model and a critical component in a successful business model. He believes that by uniting the two concepts, developers of the world can learn to accelerate ideas and then take them to the next level.
Together with a team of the best minds in the industry, Anthony founded SignalWire in 2018. SignalWire has a primary mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream. Going two steps beyond where FreeSWITCH leaves off, SignalWire solves the recurring problems faced by companies today trying to digitally transform their legacy hardware solutions. Likewise, new companies are sprouting up every day, and it’s critical that these startups can solve their communications needs quickly and economically.
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Tony Minessale
Founder & CEO at SignalWire
- 📍Brookfield, WI
- Software Engineer
- Entrepreneur
Tony Minessale is the Founder and CEO of SignalWire, an enterprise CPaaS that delivers advanced FreeSWITCH as a Service through an elastic-cloud framework and developer-friendly APIs.
He has 25+ years of experience in software engineering, telecommunications and open source.
In founding SignalWire, Tony’s mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream came to light.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Business Communications
- Open-Source Software
- Software Development
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Anthony has 20 years of experience in software engineering, and 15 of them dedicated to telecommunications. In 2005, Anthony founded FreeSWITCH, the Open-Source Software-Defined Telecom engine used by the Enterprise worldwide to power their platforms.
FreeSWITCH is a cross-platform software stack written in C and C++ that implements a fully-functional telecommunications engine. FreeSWITCH has a large active community and is used in most popular CPaaS platforms as the core telephony stack.
As an avid open-source advocate, Anthony has spent his career working to create a world where open-source software is an effective development model and a critical component in a successful business model. He believes that by uniting the two concepts, developers of the world can learn to accelerate ideas and then take them to the next level.
Together with a team of the best minds in the industry, Anthony founded SignalWire in 2018. SignalWire has a primary mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream. Going two steps beyond where FreeSWITCH leaves off, SignalWire solves the recurring problems faced by companies today trying to digitally transform their legacy hardware solutions. Likewise, new companies are sprouting up every day, and it’s critical that these startups can solve their communications needs quickly and economically.
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When my team and I started the Software-Defined Telecom movement in 2005, I had already been working remotely for 10 years. Back in 1995, working from home meant 2 analog phone lines; dial-up internet on one phone line and calls on the other. AOL Instant Messenger was still a few years away.
There’s so much internet speed in a typical cell phone that you can power an entire building of telephone calls over it. Instead of having a thousand low-quality calls, we can have 500 high-quality ones. We can start moving people to video. You can’t Facetime Target right now to ask them a question, but you should be able to.
Timeline
Dec 2017 – Present
SignalWire Inc.
Founder & CEO
2006 – April 2018
FreeSWITCH Solutions LLC
Founder & CEO
Oct 2008 – Dec 2014
Barracuda Networks
Director of Engineering CudaTEL
Jan 2001 – Oct 2008
Cylynx INC
CTO
Jan 1995 – Dec 2000
Digiweb
Chief Systems Architect