Zaki Manian is an advisor at Celestia. Zaki was previously the director of Tendermint Labs from March 2018 to January 2021. Prior to that, they were the founder of skuchain.com from September 2014 to June 2017. Zaki was also a system integration engineer at ReaMetrix from January 2005 to January 2017.
Zaki Manian attended the University of Pennsylvania, where they studied history and sociology of science. Zaki also attended Pinewood High School.