Hi, I'm Oz ⚡️
Physicist turned Full Stack Software Engineer building with Bitcoin, Nostr and AI.
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About

Senior backend engineer with 6+ years building production infrastructure and leading technical teams. Expert in Node.js, Python, TypeScript, and event-driven architectures with microservices and RabbitMQ. Proven track record taking ownership of critical applications, scaling systems for exponential growth, and transforming manual processes into automated solutions. Led teams of 4+ engineers, managed 100+ microservices, and delivered rapid MVP solutions across diverse technical challenges. Ready to help drive the future of Lightning Network infrastructure.

Open Source Contributions and Projects

Work Experience

D

Digital Essentia Remote

July 2024 - Present
Software Engineering & AI Consultant
M

MedTrainer Remote

August 2021 - July 2024
Senior Platform Engineer
C

CryptoMX Remote

October 2021 - May 2022
Blockchain Consultant & Smart Contract Developer
A

Arkus Nexus Remote

February 2021 - August 2021
Machine Learning Engineer
G

Grupo Molecular

January 2019 - February 2021
Research Analyst & AI Engineer

Education

My Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.

Cypherflow.ai - KYC-Free AI Platform
Cypherflow.ai - KYC-Free AI Platform

Built a KYC-Free AI platform with Lightning Network and Ecash payments, Nostr protocol support, Redis caching for real-time AI inference with Resumable Streams. All AI chats are encryted with the users Nostr private key and backed up to nostr relays.

Ecash Lightning Wallet Progressive Web App (PWA) Nostr Protocol NIP-44 Nostr Encryption NIP-60 Nostr Ecash Wallet ExpressJS SvelteKit TypeScript SQLite Redis Docker Coolify CI/CD Privacy Tech
Website Source
Forever in Bitcoin - Inscription Service
Forever in Bitcoin - Inscription Service

Developed a Bitcoin Ordinals Inscription service orchestrating multiple microservices to process text and images and inscribing them onto the Bitcoin Blockchain. Bitcoin and Lightning Payments accepted throught BTCPay Server.

FastAPI TypeScript Bitcoin Core Lightning Network Ordinals Taproot Transactions PostgreSQL Redis Docker AWS EC2 Mempool API BTCPay Server
Website Source
Bitcoin-Lightning IOS Wallet
Bitcoin-Lightning IOS Wallet

A non-custodial IOS Bitcoin Wallet that connects to the users own electrum server for Blockchain data and integrates Lightning Network payments throught the IbexHub API (Custodial Lightning).

Non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet Swift Rust BDK - Bitcoin Dev Kit Lightning Network Electrum Server IbexHub API QRScanner
Website Source
Chaotic Attraction - Art Through Numerical Simulations
Chaotic Attraction - Art Through Numerical Simulations

Interactive 3D Physics simulations of the Butterfly Effect to showcase the beauty of chaotic systems of equations. Each simulation has been deployed to IPFS and minted as an interactive NFT.

Generative Art Interactive 3D Simulations Three.js ERC-721 Tokens Node.js JavaScript Python Solidity IPFS Web3.js
Website Source NFT Collection

Skills

Language Learning

Spanish
English
French
Japanese

Bitcoin & Lightning Network

BTC & LN Node Operations
NFC Payments
Phoenixd
LND
LNBits
ThunderHub
BOLT Specifications
BDK - Bitcoin Dev Kit
Mempool
BTCPay Server
BitcoinJS
python-bitcoinrpc
Inscriptions
PSBTs
Bitcoin Ecash

Nostr Protocol

NDK - Nostr Development Kit
Strfry Relay
nostr-rs-relay
NIP-07 extensions
NIP-60 Nostr Ecash Wallets
Nostr Event Caching

Backend Development

Node.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
ExpressJS
NestJS
RabbitMQ
Event-driven Architecture
Celery Workers
Server-Sent Events
FastAPI
Flask
SQL/NoSQL
SvelteKit
ViteJS
GraphQL

Frontend Development

Svelte
ReactJS
Vercel V0
TailwindCSS
Three.js
shadcn/ui

Infrastructure, DevOps & Monitoring

Docker
AWS
Azure
Vercel
Coolify
Microservices
OpenTelemetry
New Relic
Uptrace
Jaeger Tracing

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

Deployment of AI Models to production
AI-SDK
TensorFlow
Pytorch
Keras
Fine-Tuning Models
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
LLM Inference
Data Pipelines

Electronics and Microcontrollers

Arduino
Raspberry Pi
ESP32
C
MicroPython
IoT Projects
Home Automation
Sensor Integration

Development Practices

Code Reviews
Testing
Quality Assurance
TDD
Agile Development
Git
Technical Leadership

Advanced Mathematics

Probability & Statistics
Linear Algebra
Calculus
Differential Equations
Numerical Simulations
Complex Analysis
Number Theory
Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on twitter or email me directly at contact@utxoz.me and I'll respond whenever I can. I will ignore all soliciting.