Max Zab is a serial founder and CEO with 11 years of hands-on engineering and product leadership, building web and crypto-native services from payment rails to multichain MPC wallets. He combines deep implementation skills across Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, Solidity and modern stacks with practical experience in infrastructure, databases and cryptography to deliver secure, scalable platforms. As founder of WhalesHeaven and TotalSig and current CEO of Marmel.ai, he blends startup grit with a focus on emerging intersections of AI, film and decentralized finance. Based in Tallinn, his background in astronomy hints at a data-driven, systems-oriented approach to problem solving and product design. Notably, he pairs technical depth with community impact goals—creating tools that broaden access to funding, filmmaking and Web3 participation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Manchester
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