The Team

The Sovright Team

Sovright builds the critical infrastructure that preserves your right to choose — the difficult, overlooked work others avoid.

That mission began with Zcash, but it doesn't end there. Among us are the people who helped invent private digital money, and the people who have kept open networks decentralized in the years since.

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sudo_ml

Project Lead

Builder and strategist at the intersection of digital assets, privacy policy, and decentralized infrastructure. Sudo brings institutional perspective and a sharp eye for what sovereignty actually requires at scale.

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Kristi Põldsam

Head of Product

Technical founder who ships sovereignty tooling that people actually use. Põldsam builds at the intersection of cryptographic infrastructure and developer experience — the systems that determine whether open-source projects survive long enough to matter. She leads product at Sovright.

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Zaki Manian

Head of Engineering

Veteran cryptographic infrastructure builder and long-time contributor to the Zcash ecosystem. Zaki brings deep experience across consensus mechanisms, validator operations, and privacy-preserving protocol design.

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Board of directors

sudo_ml, Zaki Manian, Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, and Colby Thomson govern Sovright.

Meet the board