João Mesquita
Frontend Engineer at Voltage
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoão Mesquita is a Frontend Engineer with 11 years of software experience and a background in hardware design, which gives him a practical systems-first perspective on building user interfaces. He’s worked across startups and finance firms—leading frontend architecture at TokenSoft, launching River Financial’s brokerage product and now advancing Lightning Network UX at Voltage. João blends deep frontend expertise (React, Next.js, Styled Components) with fullstack and backend experience (Elixir, Phoenix, GraphQL), enabling him to ship end-to-end features and APIs. As a founder of a Bitcoin+Lightning gaming platform, he has hands-on product, fundraising and operations experience beyond pure engineering. He’s driven by accelerating Bitcoin’s adoption and has focused recent work on Lightning integrations and products that enable novel monetized user interactions. Based in London, he pairs engineering rigor from his electronics training with a strong track record of shipping secure, user-focused financial products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First at University of SussexShaftesbury School
English, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
realtime10
storybook10
lightning-network10
peer-to-peer10
cryptocurrency10
hosting10
hybrid10
wallet10
javascript10
browser10
mining10
react-framework10
create-react-native-app10
compiler10
cli10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jcsmesquita/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 101 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
DACapital/website
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 8 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
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