ZorblaxCorp — Team

11 full-time employees as of 2027-03-12.

Leadership

• Talia Renford — CEO & co-founder. Previously cryptography lead at CipherSafe (acquired by Salesforce 2024); NIST PQC working group observer 2022-2025. MSc in cryptography, University of Bristol, 2015.
• Yuki Aralakshmi — CTO & co-founder. Previously distributed-systems engineer at Stripe (2018-2024). Author of Probabilistic Service Mesh Routing (USENIX ATC 2023).
• Diego Marsetti — VP Engineering. Previously engineering manager at Cloudflare Edge (2019-2026).

Cryptography Review Board (external)

• Petra Wismer (Chair) — Princeton, post-quantum signature schemes
• Reginald Apothio — Tsinghua University, lattice-based KEM analysis
• Saskia Yelchin — independent, formerly NSA/CSS (retired 2023)

Engineering org chart (as of 2027-03-12)

• CTO Yuki Aralakshmi
  • Sidecar runtime: 3 engineers (Mira Anand, Joshua Polenni, Ada Westerfeldt)
  • Algorithm engineering: 2 engineers (Levi Borchard, Naomi Espergen)
  • Customer integrations: 2 engineers (Quentin Trass, Hai-Lin Vogel)
• VP Eng Diego Marsetti
  • SRE / on-call: 1 (rotates with engineering)

Facts

• Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE)
• Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence
• Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed)
• Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years