Zach Kelling
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorZach Kelling is a cypherpunk CTO and founder with 15+ years building privacy-first, quantum-safe, and decentralized infrastructure across AI/ML, cryptography, hardware, and finance. He currently leads Hanzo Dev and Satschel’s engineering efforts—shipping agentic multi-agent AI workflows and the first non-custodial, regulation-ready trading platform that bridges ATS, broker-dealer, and transfer agent infrastructure. His track record includes designing post-quantum cryptography, MPC, and FHE at LUX, founding tokenization and digital securities platforms at Arca and ESX, and architecting sovereign L1s and omni-chain AI tooling at Zoo Labs. A prolific open-source builder, Zach has driven developer adoption at scale (Hanzo’s ecosystem sees ~30k monthly devs and 800+ packages) while focusing on safety primitives like sandboxed execution and approval gates. He pairs hands-on systems engineering with product instincts that turn experimental crypto and AI research into usable, regulation-aware products. Passionate about expanding access to high-leverage technical careers, he blends impact investing with operational leadership to lower barriers for underrepresented communities.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
53,193reputation
8.1mreached
478answers
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
mailchimp10
uwsgi10
python10
bash10
material-ui10
cryptocurrency10
mailchimp-api10
reload10
crypto10
symlink10
checkout10
javascript10
reactive10
django10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zeekay/bebop
Jan 2012 - Feb 2021
🎷 Jazzy build tool for sophisticated front-end development.
Contributions:642 commits, 37 PRs, 226 pushes in 9 years 2 months
reactjavascriptjazzyfront-end-developmentfront-end
hanzoai/web
Jul 2017 - Feb 2025
🌐 Hanzo's main site.
Contributions:21 PRs, 132 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
hanzonextjsblockchaincryptocurrenciespayments
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