Résumé - Zaal Panthaki

Highlights

73+open-source repos shipped

250+artists + creators in The ZAO

100+weekly governance meetings run

400+newsletter editions published

459 SOLtraded on WaveWarZ

Experience

2023 — now

Founder The ZAO — creator infrastructure ecosystem

Built and run a Web3 ecosystem giving independent artists margin, data, and IP back. Ship open-source tooling, run weekly onchain governance (ZAO Fractal, 100+ weeks), and publish in public (400+ newsletter editions).

2024 — now

Co-founder & Backend WaveWarZ — onchain music battles (Solana)

Artist prediction markets with instant, automatic settlement. Built the backend; organized and hosted the first IRL WaveWarZ battle.

Maine

Building Automation Technician The Jackson Laboratory

Building automation at a biomedical research institution headquartered in Bar Harbor, Maine.

2026

Web + Ops Consulting Riverside Group LLC — Maine client work

Web and operations consulting for a landscape design firm in Mount Desert, Maine.

pre-2022

Automation Engineer PCC Structurals

Led a $1.5M robotics project that achieved a 7x throughput gain in heavy manufacturing.

Education

2022

BS, Electrical Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

Skills & stack

Next.jsReactNode.js Farcaster SDKSolanaBaseOptimism Claude API / agentsSupabaseDiscord.js Smart contractsAutomation / pipelinesVercel

Selected open-source work

A few highlights — the full catalog of 46 projects (extend / fork / build, all MIT) lives at /projects.

FarHack 2026

zlankNo-code Farcaster Snap builder — won the Snap category ($1,000 prize).

Flagship

ZAOOSMonorepo lab + gated Farcaster client — social feed, spaces, governance.

Media

Co-host of Let's Talk About Ethereum (weekly), host of BCZ YapZ (long-form interviews), and daily on Twitch.