Avery Ching
Avery Ching is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aptos, a premier Web3 studio and layer 1 blockchain. Avery is a renowned expert in blockchain and big data and a veteran software engineer with over two decades of experience building distributed technologies and scaling them to billions of users around the world. Prior to Aptos, he led the crypto platform team at Meta focusing on all aspects of blockchain technology from wallet infrastructure to L1 blockchain development—most notably the Diem blockchain. He was also the overall tech lead for all of Meta’s batch processing teams including Spark, Graph processing, Facebook Hive/Hadoop, distributed scheduling, and the unified programming model for pipelines. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he serves as an advisor to various blockchain startups.
Avery Ching Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
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Principal Software Engineer
Academic History
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Ph.D., Computer Engineering
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B.S., Computer Engineering
The platform aims to help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.
Aptos has partnered with several organizations, including NPIXEL, Google Cloud, Pontem Network, and MoonPay.
FACEBOOK/META
Ching was responsible for various company-wide big data and machine learning workloads at powering all products at Meta.
He was the co-creator of batch scheduling, graph processing and Facebook Spark teams and technologies.
He also developed and completely replaced Hadoop MapReduce with Corona in production.
He started his career as Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo!
Ching is a well-respected industry figure known for his technical expertise and ability to drive innovation.
He has also worked on other blockchain projects, such as Ripple and Stellar.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
He has been featured in The Block, CoinDesk, and Yahoo! Finance.