My Professional Dream Is to Work at Fedi
Prologue
From all the pleasures life offers, finding meaning in your day-to-day work has to be one of the most profound. Knowing that your day’s activities, however small or seemingly insignificant, contribute to your highest vision for the world is deeply satisfying. Without it, life can still be great, but there will always be something missing, an itch that won’t go away, however hard you scratch it with worldly means.
That’s how I felt for the last 20 years. I sought far and wide, followed mirages and ghosts, never finding the deep satisfaction I longed for. Then I discovered Bitcoin. As years went by, it clicked deeper and deeper until one day I realized: Earth is a FIAT prison planet and Bitcoin is a rare opportunity for the human race to liberate itself. Finally, a work proposition with all the meaning I could ask for.
Bitcoin gave me the realistic vision: Liberation from FIAT tyranny. Fedimint is giving us the tactics. Fedi is the vehicle.
Introduction
I first heard of Fedi and Fedimint at the beginning of 2024 during the first wave of Obi’s appearances on different podcasts. Although I could not understand the concept at first (I mean chaumian mints, envelopes, blind signatures, e-cash, federations, guardians, etc. -> 😭), I sensed there is something important there. I spent the next six months reading documentation and watching every podcast and lecture on Fedimint I could find. Eventually, I understood the technical parts as well as I could, but more importantly the strategy clicked: Stop trying to convince the developed world to adopt Bitcoin as money, and focus on the Global South, where the pain FIAT causes is felt much deeper and on a day-to-day basis. Where pain is felt the most, medicine is the easiest to swallow.
Later in 2024, during BTC Prague, I watched the above at Satoshi Rockamoto event. It was one of those surreal life moments. I felt as if everything came together and I knew Obi is someone worth following. There he was singing: “Never enough, until we are all free!” I thought to myself: “Wow, here is a CEO, that goes on stage, sings his heart out, wakes up the next day, and actually goes and works on his highest vision for the world.” It doesn’t get much better than that.
At the time, I didn’t see a path to working with you. Fedi’s codebase deserves engineers who live and breathe low-level protocol work and that’s not where my strengths lie. My knowledge of Bitcoin wasn’t there either, and I had no proof-of-work. It just wasn’t the right time.
Who Am I?
My name is Matej Lukášik and I’m based in Slovakia. You can find my CV here but in short: ten years ago I learned to build web applications using Ruby on Rails, and that’s what I’ve done professionally ever since. The job makes for a good lifestyle, but as I mentioned in the prologue, I’ve always felt something was missing. I tried my hand at a bunch of my own startups too, but could never find enough meaning in them to keep me going.
Here’s something I’ve come to understand about myself: I’m a strong builder and shipper, but my gift isn’t algorithms, data structures, or low-level optimization. It’s seeing the whole picture — taking a product from concept to shipping, building integrations that open new markets, setting up teams and processes that scale. I spent ten years coding because that was the tool at hand, but what I was actually doing was building products and businesses.
Today, I’m working as a senior Ruby on Rails developer for a Swedish fin-tech startup and I am looking to transition. Actually, I want to make two transitions:
- I want to move my time and energy onto the Bitcoin network (Jeff’s the GOAT).
- I want to move into a role that uses the full range of what I’ve learned — not just the code (funnily enough, with the advent of agentic coding, I find building stuff (the Projects section) more fun than ever. I just never enjoyed the nitty, gritty of coding as much as the question of what to build and why).
On the Bitcoin front, I’ve been investing heavily in education and community:
- I lead twentyone.world meetups in my city Trnava, Slovakia.
- I recently gave a self-organized talk — History of Money: From Shells to Bitcoin.
- I write articles for the Slovak Bitcoin community (in English here).
- I completed Dušan Matuška’s Bitcoin Educator’s Academy and am signed up for level 2 in May 2026.
- I graduated from a bunch of courses at Plan B Academy and I am currently enrolled in Bitcoin Business Track 2026. Are you participating? If this application doesn’t work out, maybe we can work on an assignment together.
- I contributed to nostr based publishing ecosystem project called pareto.space
- I run a node 😊
Working Together?
From the 7 open positions at Fedi, I think Mini-Apps Lead is where I can create the most value.
I’m not a traditional BD hire and I won’t pretend otherwise. What I am is a developer, builder, startup founder and former CTO who has spent 10 years building, integrating, and shipping products — and who now brings that technical depth to the business side of growing an ecosystem.
I’ve built the kind of integrations Mini-Apps are made of. At Datamolino, I built the QuickBooks Online integration that opened an entire app marketplace and created substantial new business opportunities. That meant evaluating a partner platform, understanding the commercial opportunity, and shipping an integration that worked reliably for thousands of users.
I’ve scaled teams and introduced new technology into organizations. As the first employee and CTO at Zeilenwerk, I grew the development team from 2 to 10, introduced React, React Native, and GraphQL, established development processes, and led projects from inception to completion. Building a Mini-Apps ecosystem requires the same muscle.
I can evaluate a Mini-App’s architecture in a partner meeting. The posting says “you don’t need to code, but you can read a spec.” When a potential Mini-App partner presents their integration, I’ll know immediately whether it’s solid or fragile, whether their API design will scale, and what the technical risks are. That’s a lens most BD leads simply can’t offer.
I use AI extensively. It’s been ten months since I’ve written a line of code by hand. Just recently I submitted a GitHub Action that scans our error logs nightly, creates GitHub issues from what it finds, asks Copilot to fix them, and submits the solutions as PRs.
I offer a decade of technical product experience, the ability to sit in a room with developers and partners and actually understand both sides. Whatever gaps remain between where I am and where the role needs me, I close them fast. I’ve been doing it my whole career with new technologies, and now, with LLMs at hand, understanding and applying new concepts has never been easier.
I’d love to sit down and talk about how my experience could serve Fedi’s mission. I have a lot of questions about where Mini-Apps are headed, and I’ve learned that asking good questions is what I do best. You can reach me at matej.lukasik@icloud.com.
PS: Never enough, until we are all free! 😉
