I'm Jakub Kot. I build software and run the infrastructure behind it.
I'm a Senior / Staff Software Engineer based in Czechia, with eight years of remote experience in early-stage companies. I've led a team of around eight engineers and owned architecture, infrastructure, releases and incident response.
Experience
- Staff Software Engineer, Musqet
- May 2025 to present. Cooperation paused pending funding.
- I owned architecture, infrastructure and releases for a Bitcoin commerce platform with five payment rails in production, and authored the Lightning payment handler spec for the Universal Commerce Protocol.
- Paternity leave and open source
- January 2024 to April 2025.
- I built Stack Orange, Lofextra and Lofik, contributed to SeedSigner and LNbits, and learned Rust through Bitcoin and Lightning projects.
- Senior Fullstack Engineer, Momence
- July 2021 to December 2023.
- I built Inbox, a real-time multichannel messaging product, and integrations with Zoom, Google Calendar, Gmail and Gympass.
- Software Engineer to Lead Software Engineer, OAK'S LAB
- March 2020 to June 2021.
- I led the company's largest team, around eight engineers, and built the platform behind Crave Delivery from scratch to launch.
- Earlier roles
- Full Stack Developer at Qusion (July 2019 to February 2020), Web Developer at Qest automation (July to December 2018), and IT Infrastructure Specialist at ALS Czech Republic (2017 to 2018).
For work enquiries, get in touch.