Résumé

Zaal Panthaki

Founder of The ZAO · Open-Source / AI-Agent Builder - Maine, USA

A free & open source software (FOSS) builder. Electrical engineer by training who turned an automation instinct toward shipping open-source software in public - lately AI-agent systems that run an entire creator ecosystem. Founder of The ZAO (creator-infrastructure ecosystem) and co-founder of WaveWarZ (onchain music battles). 80+ open-source repos and counting.

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Highlights

80+open-source repos shipped
250+gated core in The ZAO · 1,000+ reached
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.
Directory
ZAONEXUSSearchable directory of 200+ ecosystem links.

Media

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