Jordi Montes
Chief Executive Officer at Fewsats
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJordi Montes is a CEO and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, fintech products, and developer tooling from Vancouver, Canada. He founded Qualitech and now leads Fewsats, a serverless payments platform aimed at making sats a native unit in digital payments—continuing his prior work at Lightning Labs on the Lightning Network. Jordi combines backend systems expertise in Go and Python with production-grade devops and database design, contributing notable fixes and features to the widely used lnd Lightning daemon and Taproot Assets implementations. His background spans research-grade numerical libraries at IBM Research to production travel and payments systems, reflecting a pattern of turning complex protocols into reliable, deployable services. Comfortable moving between architecture, hands-on coding, and product strategy, he brings both academic rigor (Discrete Mathematics) and practical engineering to crypto-native infrastructure. An underappreciated strength is his repeated focus on observability and fee-handling correctness—areas that quietly unlock scalability and user trust in payment systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (16)
lightning10
bitcoin10
pst10
go10
bitcoins10
ps10
sql10
lightning-network10
blockchain10
cryptography9
grpc9
database-design9
databases8
database8
github-ci4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lightningnetwork/lnd
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:363 reviews, 48 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jordi primarily focused on improving the reliability and functionality of the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) by addressing bugs and adding new features. Their contributions included fixing mnemonic word validation errors, adding new keys to the script verification, and implementing support for the Peers subserver. Furthermore, they refactored the invoice hop hint selection process to reduce database calls and added the `updatenodeannouncement` feature to the `Peers` service. They also worked on creating and refining the related SQL schema.
cryptographypaymentsprotocoldaemonlightning
lightninglabs/taproot-assets
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A layer 1 daemon, for the Taproot Assets Protocol specification, written in Go (golang)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 17 days
Contributions summary:Jordi primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `taproot-assets` project. They focused on adding functionality related to on-chain fees within the minting and transfer transactions, including modifying existing code in `tarogarden` and `tarofreighter` to incorporate chain fee calculations. Additionally, they made changes to the database schema (tarodb) to store and query on-chain fees, improving data accessibility. Their work also involved version upgrades and build process enhancements.
golangtarodaemonspecificationprotocol-specification
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