Victor Pontis
Co-Founder at Luma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVictor Pontis is a seasoned engineer and serial founder with 14 years of experience building product-focused startups and shipping reliable software from New York. As co-founder of Luma and prior founder roles in scooter and battery ventures, he blends hardware-adjacent operational insight with hands-on full-stack engineering. His open-source contributions include hardening Sequelize’s association tests and adding wallet support to the Solana wallet-adapter ecosystem, showing comfort across back-end databases and front-end cryptographic UX. An MIT-educated CS and physics graduate, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with pragmatic product instincts and a habit of improving robustness in widely used developer tools. Unafraid to dive into DB-specific edge cases or multi-framework UI integrations, he tends to focus on making complex integrations feel seamless for users and other developers.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTorrey Pines High School
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Github Skills (27)
sequel10
wallet10
javascript10
postgresql10
testing10
associations10
typescript10
database-testing10
orm10
front-end-development10
solana10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
sequelizejs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
anza-xyz/wallet-adapter
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Modular TypeScript wallet adapters and components for Solana applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on integrating and supporting the Glow wallet adapter within the Solana wallet adapter library. This included adding the Glow wallet adapter, updating the UI examples and documentation to incorporate it, and handling network configurations for transaction signing. The changes involved modifying code across multiple starter projects using various UI frameworks. The user updated the Glow wallet's icon and implemented network-aware transaction signing functionality.
reactsolanablockchainwalletadapters
sequelize/sequelize
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the test suite of the Sequelize ORM. Their work involved writing and modifying tests for hasOne and hasMany associations, including scenarios with foreign key field specifications and nested includes. Additionally, the user identified and addressed database-specific error handling issues related to unique constraints within the PostgreSQL dialect. These contributions focused on ensuring the robustness and accuracy of Sequelize's association functionalities.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
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