Jodom Konuko is an Open Source Engineer based in Canada with a decade of experience building privacy-first, scalable product infrastructure from architecture through deployment. He moved from a multi-year software engineering role at Microsoft into grant-funded independent work, designing an open protocol for community custody and bitcoin transactions with strong privacy guarantees. Technically adept across full stack concerns, he has notable backend contributions to the federated e-cash project Fedimint, specifically integrating Lightning Network gateway and CLI functionality. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product and protocol, he combines systems-level rigor with a product-minded focus on the “next billion” users. Trained in geospatial engineering, he brings an unusual spatial-systems perspective to distributed protocols and tooling. Known for digging into deep technical problems, he balances open-source collaboration with real-world deployment experience.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Geospatial, Engineering, Bsc. Geospatial, Engineering at The University of Nairobi.
Contributions:647 reviews, 180 commits, 234 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jodom primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Fedimint project, specifically focusing on the lightning network integration. Their work included implementing commands and functionality for the client-side CLI, such as listing and switching gateways. They also made changes to core library files to support these new commands and related features, like fetching and using registered gateways. The user further contributed by adding and refining the gateway's ability to handle and process incoming and outgoing invoices.
Contributions:52 reviews, 68 commits, 54 PRs in 2 months
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