My Life on Tour
My Last Years: Scaling ZK-Rollups, Coaching Pro Tennis, and a New Chapter Life has a funny way of taking you on wildly different, yet equally intense paths. If you looked at my calendar over the past year, you would have...
Writing on software design, security, and the sports industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Email server ianzn.com
3 Years of Self-Hosting Mail: How I Run a Bulletproof Mailcow Server in production. Self-hosting an email server has gained a reputation as a modern tech horror story. If you mention it on Reddit or Hacker News, you will...
My Story as a Researcher
Beyond Blind Trust: My Journey in Privacy-Preserving Cryptography and Data Sovereignty We’ve all heard the foundational rule of the internet: Don't trust, verify. But as a computer engineer and researcher, I’ve spent the...