Lisa Neigut
Founder at bitcoin++
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Neigut is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently focused on Bitcoin infrastructure and community development from Houston. She co-founded Base58 and runs bitcoin++, an international developer conference that scaled to four events in 18 months, demonstrating a blend of technical depth and event-driven entrepreneurship. At Blockstream she works as a Lightning Protocol Engineer and previously contributed Android improvements and UX fixes to the well-known Zulip Android codebase, showing hands-on open-source impact. Her background spans product teams at Square, Etsy, and Electric Objects, with strengths in Android, real-time systems, and payments. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese with formal training in MIS, she pairs cross-cultural communication with practical engineering leadership. Known for a bit of "high voltage" energy, she combines pragmatic codecraft with community-building around decentralized systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Business Honors & Mgmt Information Systems, BBA Business Honors & Mgmt Information Systems at Texas McCombs School of BusinessBBA & BA Management Information Systems Spanish & Portuguese, BBA & BA Management Information Systems Spanish & Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (6)
javas10
android-sdk10
android-development10
java10
mobile-ui9
crashlytics8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip-android-legacy
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Legacy Zulip Android app
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:111 commits, 111 PRs, 89 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily focused on improving the Zulip Android app. Their contributions included refactoring the codebase, adding functionality to allow narrowing to streams or conversations, and improving the visual appearance of the message threads. They also addressed bug fixes by correcting the logging to Crashlytics, and added enhancements to the login and file upload processes.
android-appkotlinandroidzulip
niftynei/zulip-android
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
android-appandroidzulip
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