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 centers on security analysis and database architecture. He is driving the effort to move LND's persistence layer toward fully native SQL, including leading the implementation of its SQL-backed payments database. 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, reviewing grant applications and progress reports for projects across the Layer 2 ecosystem.