ZN‑001
Aris Novák
Co‑founder · CEO
Ex‑quant and protocol engineer. Shipped since the 2017 cycle. Believes in fewer calls, smaller teams, longer horizons.
Team · 54 humans
Small. Senior. Very serious about the boring parts.
A cross‑section of who you will actually work with. Everyone here ships code, not decks. Everyone here has a pager.
ZN‑002
Mira Kapoor
Co‑founder · CTO
Distributed systems. Ex‑HFT. Contributes to Bitcoin Core and Substrate. Reads whitepapers for fun.
ZN‑003
Jonas Weil
Head of Research · ML
Ex‑DeepMind. NeurIPS reviewer. Runs our frontier ML agenda with a bias toward actually shipping.
ZN‑004
Lien Trinh
Head of Protocols
Core dev since the Byzantium fork. Cares deeply about clean specs, dull interfaces, and long uptime.
ZN‑005
Rafael Costa
Head of Security
Broke things for years; now keeps them intact. Led incident response for two of the top exchanges.
ZN‑006
Hana Ishikawa
Head of Design
Systems‑minded designer. Previously at Stripe and Arc. Turns spreadsheets into surfaces people enjoy.
ZN‑007
Ömer Yıldız
Principal · Agents
Agent graphs, tool contracts and eval harnesses. Prefers deletion to abstraction.
ZN‑008
Sara Okafor
Principal · TradFi
Ex‑Goldman, ex‑Anchorage. Navigates banks, regulators and settlement systems in her sleep.
+ 46 more engineers, designers & researchers
We hire senior by default, then coach in.
Contributions
What our people have shipped elsewhere.
Bitcoin Core
41 merged PRs · 6 CVE acks
Ethereum
12 EIPs · 3 client PRs · 2 ERCs
Polkadot
5 pallets · 2 XCM extensions
Open eval
9 agent evals upstreamed
Audits co‑authored
18 with Trail of Bits, Spearbit, Zellic
Conferences
Devcon · ETHDenver · Protocol Berg · Sub0