Avery Ching is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aptos Labs, the company creating developer tooling and products to enhance the Aptos ecosystem. With more than a decade’s experience in the industry, Avery has led teams at Meta across general blockchain development as well as ecosystems, wallet infrastructure, strategy and most notably, the Diem blockchain. Prior to that, Avery led the team responsible for scaling Meta’s products to millions of people around the world. He was overall head of batch processing teams including Spark, Graphic processing (Apache Giraph), Facebook Hive/Hadoop (Corona), distributed scheduling, and the unified programming model for pipelines. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Avery studied at Northwestern University where he also received a PhD in Computer Engineering specializing in the area of supercomputing, parallel computing frameworks, and high-performance file systems.
