About Ziggie

Ziggie began his career as an aerospace engineer developing safety-critical aviation software. He later moved into Bitcoin development through an OpenSats grant to contribute to LND, an implementation of the Lightning Network. Today, he is one of LND's primary maintainers and works at Lightning Labs.

His work on LND spans payment-database infrastructure, performance improvements, testing, and release maintenance. He has also built tools for Lightning node operators, including lncare and Distributed Mission Control for LND, which shares payment-routing data between nodes.

Before joining the board, Ziggie served on the Layer 2 evaluation committee. His background in safety-critical engineering and experience maintaining Lightning infrastructure inform his evaluation of open-source projects.