Zak Cole is a Web3 and Ethereum developer, protocol engineer, and software entrepreneur. He received his training as a cyber network engineer in the United States Marine Corps. In Iraq's Al Anbar province during Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-08, he and his unit were responsible for building mission critical data infrastructure and managing the implementation and distribution of cryptographic assets.

After retiring from the Marine Corps, Zak worked in the fields of web development, network engineering, and applied cryptography. He also built several companies spanning ad tech, web hosting, cyber security prior to delving into the Web3 and DeFi space.