Jesse De Wit
Developer at Breez
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJesse De Wit is a pragmatic back-end developer with 9 years of experience building resilient services for fintech and marketplace platforms, currently focused on Lightning Network payments at Breez. He brings a strong analytical mindset and a habit of thinking two steps ahead, which he applies to designing clean integrations and robust CI/CD-driven deployments. At SnappCar and UWV he worked across .NET, Node.js, Kubernetes and AWS, leading small teams and introducing Agile practices and onboarding plans. Jesse is also an active open-source contributor to the widely used lightningnetwork/lnd project, adding a TrackPayments API and subscription support to improve payment observability. His background in biology and varied roles—from founding a Flutter NFC app to parenting-focused projects—give him an unusual mix of curiosity, user empathy and systems thinking. Colleagues know him as a motivator and idea-generator who learns quickly and dives fully into complex problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity at Wageningen UniversityVWO, Natuur & Techniek, Natuur & Gezondheid, VWO, Natuur & Techniek, Natuur & Gezondheid at ScholenGemeenschap Lelystad
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Github Skills (21)
url-routing10
apidoc10
lightning-network10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrency10
go10
api10
blockchain10
testing9
assertion9
cryptography9
grpc9
async-await6
flutter6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lightningnetwork/lnd
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the `lnd` project by implementing new routing functionalities. Their main contribution involves adding the `TrackPayments` API, which allows for tracking all payments instead of individual payments. They also added a method `SubscribeAllPayments` to the control tower, enabling subscription to all payment updates. Furthermore, the user's code modifications include adding an integration test (`itest`) for `TrackPayments` and adjusting build configurations.
cryptographypaymentsprotocoldaemonlightning
breez/swapd
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
A simple submarine swap daemon
Contributions:9 reviews, 42 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 years 2 months
daemonswapsubmarine-swap
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