Luis Montes
Chief Technology Officer at Iced Development
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarLuis Montes is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of software experience, currently leading technical strategy at Mindset Medical while running Iced Development, his Node/React and IoT consultancy. He blends hands-on embedded and backend expertise—evidenced by open-source contributions improving Firmata JS test automation, Meshblu IoT messaging, and browser-based Arduino tooling—with strategic product delivery for real-time and agentic AI systems. Comfortable across the stack, Luis has a track record of refactoring critical messaging paths, hardening serial communication flows, and shipping developer-friendly tooling that bridges hardware and web. Based in Mesa, Arizona, he pairs startup founder grit with board-level experience at HeatSync Labs, bringing pragmatic leadership to complex, production-focused ML and real-time application challenges.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
firmata10
messaging-system10
back-end-development10
testing10
mqtt10
mqttnet10
nodejs10
serial-communication10
backend10
arduino10
test-automation10
websocket9
rest-api9
microservices8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
octoblu/meshblu
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Meshblu is a cross-protocol IoT machine-to-machine messaging system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Luis refactored the codebase to improve message handling, specifically for single message sending functions. They made changes to `server.js` to clean up UUID lookups, RPC calls, and the MQTT handler. Additionally, they added support for gateway configuration within the REST endpoint, enhancing the functionality of the `Meshblu` messaging system. These contributions focused on improving the backend logic and functionality of the messaging system.
opcuamessaging-systemmqttmachine-to-machinemessaging
noopkat/avrgirl-arduino
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
:girl: :pager: A NodeJS library for flashing compiled sketch files to Arduino microcontroller boards.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luis contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the project. They fixed browserify/webpack integration issues in the build process. The user also added functionality to the browser-based serial communication and corrected baudrate settings. Further work included a hex file merge.
sketch-filesgirljavascriptarduinonodejs-library
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